Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 295-03 - Special Topic: Comparative Social Inequalities

4 credits (Spring)
This course provides an overview of global social inequalities from a sociological perspective with an emphasis on public policies. It explores the extent, causes, and consequences of social and economic inequalities worldwide and their trends.  We begin with a brief discussion of key concepts  and measures used to assess inequalities across  countries. Then we will look into inequalities as  experienced in different world regions and in different dimensions and axes of stratification,  including economic inequalities, social class and mobility, education, gender, race and ethnicity, and age. The course also covers modernization  theory, dependency theory, world systems theory as well as approaches to Welfare State models and post-colonial and decolonial perspectives to understand past and current realities across the globe.

Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Padilla