SOCI 403 - Social Class and Inequality

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Examination of the various ways societies have organized the production and distribution of resources, and the results for social inequality. Concepts covered include the different ways we currently structure, define, and produce class in American society; assessment of the importance of socioeconomic class in society, and its consequences for social cohesion and optimal social functioning; and assessment of how class inequality interacts with other socially stratified systems such as race/ethnicity and sex/gender. Prereq: SOCI 100 or permission of department chair.