SOC 5180 - Social Inequality: Contemporary Theories, Debates, and Models

(CU-SBY)

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

K. Weeden.

This course serves as an introduction to contemporary theories, debates, and models regarding the structure of social classes, the determinants of social mobility, the sources and cases of racial, ethnic, and gender-based inequality, and the putative rise of postmodern forms of stratification. The twofold objective is to both review contemporary theorizing and to identify areas in which new theories, hypotheses, and research agendas might be fruitfully developed.