Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
SOC 3310 - Class and Inequality
This course explores the causes and consequences of inequalities in power, privilege, and opportunities, which characterize the class structure of most societies. Students investigate how social forces shape where people are positioned in society and what resources they have access to. Students also consider how other social positions, including race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, and sexual orientation, work together with class to create intersecting systems of oppression and privilege. Students analyze the role of ideology and contemporary media in legitimizing and sustaining unequal treatment, and explore how social inequality shapes their own lives and opportunities. Students evaluate the role of social movements and public policy efforts to address inequality and create lasting structural change.
Requisites: 6 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe recent patterns and trends in global inequality and in U.S society.
- Students will be able to describe and discuss intersectional social inequality and how it impacts the lived experiences of individuals.
- Students will be able to explain and critically evaluate major sociological concepts, theories, and empirical research used to understand and explain intersectional social inequality and social stratification.
- Students will be able to critically discuss how U.S. economic, political, educational, and cultural institutions perpetuate and reinforce intersectional social inequality.
- Students will be able to identify and discuss the multiple measures sociologists use to explore class and social inequality.
- Students will be able to articulate their own assumptions about social inequality and how social inequality has influenced their own lives.
- Students will be able to describe cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication of other groups and use culturally sensitive communication with others.
- Students will be able to discuss how their own lived experience compares to that of other groups.
- Students will be able to identify and critically assess contemporary media portrayals of social inequality.
- Students will be able to apply knowledge about social inequality to their everyday interactions and in support of culturally different others while suspending judgment.
- Students will be able to discuss and critically evaluate the possibilities for individual and structural change in U.S. society.
- Students will be able to identify and assess efforts of social movements and policy-makers to address complex questions about social inequalities.
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