Social Structure and Social Stratification

2021/2022

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Авторы программы

Печерская Наталия Викторовна

Шпаковская Лариса Леонидовна

Кто читает:

Департамент социологии

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 4 модуль

Преподаватели

Александров Даниил Александрович

Лосева Алла Олеговна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

That people have unequal sets of choices available to them is probably the key message of social science. We welcome you to the course where you will learn how social inequality is structured, reproduced and experienced. A complex of social institutions that generate the inequalities in valued goods, including but not limited to income, wealth and power, is what we call a stratification system. During the course, you will become equipped with analytical and methodological tools to study stratification. In the first weeks, you will learn the concepts and categories that guide our perception of inequality. Then we will discuss how the inequality can be measured empirically. Afterwards, you will study the mechanisms behind stratification systems, and their different aspects. The final weeks of the course are devoted to the theories putting together the previously studied concepts, measures, and mechanisms.