SOC 1127 - Social Inequalities: Race, Class, & Gender
3 Credits
Describes and analyzes selected inequality relationships in the United States. Topic areas will include economic inequality-poverty; ethnic inequality-racism; and gender inequality-sexism.
Major Content Areas
Gender inequality: 15% Class inequality: 15% Race inequality: 15% Theory and method: 30% Social change: 10% Other Inequality Issues: 15%
Learning Outcomes
Describe how social inequalities and stratification impacts individuals. Describe how race, class and gender intersect to influence individuals and social institutions. Compare and contrast different theoretical perspectives related to the analysis of social inequalities. Articulate how processes of social stratification create and reproduce social hierarchies and perpetuate inequality in human society. Describe how cultural, social, political and economic changes affect social inequality. Describe how social change and social movements impact social inequality. Identify significant ways that students can become effective social change agents.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci 7B - Race/Power/Justice
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