SOCI 201 - Introduction to Social Stratification

3 Credit(s)

This course takes a sociological approach to the study of social stratification in the United States, orienting students to patterns of privilege and inequality in contemporary society. Particular emphasis is on the ways that race, class, gender, and other systems of inequality intersect and support each other, providing advantages from some and disadvantaging others. The structural and cultural factors by which social reproduction occurs are examined as are the ways that people actively challenge and change systems of social stratification. Fall and Spring.