PUBPOL 2208

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PUBPOL 2208
Social Inequality

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course reviews contemporary approaches to understanding social inequality and the processes by which it comes to be seen as legitimate, natural, or desirable. We address questions of the following kind: what are the major forms of stratification in human history? Are inequality and poverty inevitable? How many social classes are there in advanced industrialism societies? Is there a "ruling class"? Are lifestyles, attitudes, and personalities shaped fundamentally by class membership? Can individuals born into poverty readily escape their class origins and move upward in the class structure? Are social contacts and "luck" important forces in matching individuals to jobs and class positions? What types of social processes serve to maintain and alter racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination in labor markets? Is there an "underclass"? These and other questions are addressed in light of classical and contemporary theory and research.


Course Attribute (CU-SBY, EC-LASP)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

Distribution Category (D-AG, SBA-AG)

When Offered Spring, Summer.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: SOC 2208

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17372 PUBPOL 2208   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17373 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 201

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    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17374 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 202

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    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17375 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 203

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17376 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 204

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    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17377 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 205

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17378 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 206

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17379 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 207

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    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17381 PUBPOL 2208   DIS 209

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    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person