SOC 2500 Social Inequality

This course examines inequality in the U.S. focusing primarily on race, gender, class, sexuality, and ethnicity, among other dimensions of inequality. It examines the global origins and structural organization of inequality and how it works in and through institutions such as work, family, education, healthcare, media, and politics. By exploring the unequal distribution of power and privilege, this course also considers how social inequality shapes society, how and why inequality is created and persists, and how some people have worked to both challenge inequity while others to reproduce and maintain their positions of power in society. This is a UCC Area 4 course.   Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010  
Credits: 3.0