Inequalities: Sociological Dimension

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент социологии

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1 модуль

Преподаватель

Морева Юлия Евгеньевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is devoted to studying modern approaches to the study of social inequalities. The course aims to provide an introduction to the main theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring and analyzing inequalities. As a result of mastering the course, students will develop skills related to operationalization of different inequality types, searching for indicators of social inequalities in databases, as well as analyzing inequalities and their consequences using quantitative methods.

Learning Objectives

• to learn how to study inequalities of various sources in comparative perspective

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Being able to access the results of modeling and interpret them sociologically.
• To conduct multivariate data analysis fitting race, migration, religion and gender in statistical models.
• To operationalize theoretical concepts of race, ethnicity, religiosity, etc, and associate them with certain predictors in the data.

Course Contents

• Introduction
• Inevitability of gender and making sense of it in cross-country comparative research.
• Race vs ethnicity. European and American ways of thinking about the problem.
• Mid-term presentation of models and statistical results for the individual project.
• Religiosity, religion, and migration
• Social class and income inequality
• Intersectionality. Health and class, gender issues in migrant communities, race and imprisonment rate, and other overlaps.

Assessment Elements

• Mid-term presentation
  Mid-term presentation of models and statistical results for the individual project (15%). Students are supposed to show their preliminary statistical work on modeling the effects of inequality of any type that they prefer to choose for their individual project. No theory or literature review is required at this stage. Other members of the group will be expected to comment on modeling and to give advice. The presenter must use a PDF or a powerpoint for illustrative purposes. The timeline is 15 minutes for each presentation.
• Final essay
  Individual research project essay in English (final project): 3000 words (45% of total grade). The final work for the course is an essay of about 3000 words in English related to any type of inequality, preferably analyzed in cross-national comparative perspective. It cannot be an overview of the existing articles on the topic, but an original piece of research done in quantitative or qualitative framework. This text is intended to be a draft for an article that can be published in a peer-reviewed journal after some revisions. The essay is supposed to include a theoretical section, literature review, hypotheses derived from the theory, some methodological discussion, a model built on one of the cross-country datasets, and a results section. The most important aspects to be graded are the creativity of the research idea, the operationalization, and refinement of hypotheses, proper modeling, and clear understanding of the limits of research. - Late assignments will be graded down. - Plagiarism and self-plagiarism will result in failure ("0"). Papers submitted for other classes cannot be reused.
• Presentation
  Presentation on the topic of the lesson (individually or as a member of a small group) (20%).Presentations will be held for about 20 minutes each week. Each student will present at least once (as a member of a small group). Presenters are supposed to have required and supplementary readings for the week covered. Through the discussion and presentation, presenters should demonstrate understanding of all required texts, to include some that are not assigned, and students are supposed to lead the discussion that integrates these into a wider theme. Presenters must use visual presentation as an aid for the others.
• In-class participation

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 1st module
  0.45 * Final essay + 0.2 * In-class participation + 0.15 * Mid-term presentation + 0.2 * Presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Autin, F., & Butera, F. (2016). Institutional Determinants of Social Inequalities. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.C11E5F41

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Grusky, D. B., & Szelényi, S. (2018). The Inequality Reader : Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender (Vol. Second edition). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1795599

Authors

• MOREVA IULIIA EVGENEVNA