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Academic Year 2000/2001

Social Stratification
SOC 240 FA

This course has two major goals: first, to explore the experience and variety of class-structured inequality in terms of its consequences for the lives of individuals and character of contemporary society; second, to consider class structure, organization, and awareness as they are affected by race, ethnicity, gender, and ideology. The perspectives of Marx and Weber provide a central theoretical base for evaluating contemporary attempts to understand stratification.

MAJOR READINGS

Paul Blumberg, THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CLASS Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, REGULATING THE POOR William Julius Wilson, THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE William Kornblum, BLUE COLLAR COMMUNITY William Domhoff, THE POWERS THAT BE Harry Breverman, LABOR AND MONOPOLY CAPITAL

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three to four take-home essays (five to six pages each)

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Requirement: SOC 151 or permission of the instructor

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS SOC    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: SOC151 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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