Social Class and Inequality: Sociology 133 Course Home Page

This home page is the starting point for materials supporting the course Sociology 133: Social Class and Inequality. The course is offered in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, by Professor Robert A. Hanneman. This page provides links to the materials supporting the offering of Sociology 133 in the fall quarter of the 2002-2003 academic year. Some of the pages are located on the UCR campus web server and may not be available when the course is not in session. Your advice and comments are always welcome, click here to send me email.
About the course:

Unequal life-chances among individuals and groups in society is one of the most persistent, prevalent, and troubling problems addressed by Sociology.  Inequalities arise from many sources in most societies, including race/ethnicity, age, gender, and the division of people into categories and groups on the basis of the roles that they play in economic institutions (i.e. social class).

This course is a survey of Sociological approaches to the study of social class and it's associated inequalities.  We will examine the meaning of the concept "social class."  And, we will study theories of the causes and consequences of social class inequality.  Using these general ideas, we will then examine a number of areas of empirical research on class inequality.

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