SOCG 212. Social Stratification (4 units)
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Description
The causes and effects of social ranking in various societies. Theories of stratification; the dynamics of informal social grouping; determinants of institutional power, and the nature of struggles for power; the distribution of wealth and its causes; the dynamics of social mobility; the effects of stratification on lifestyles, culture, and deviance. Prerequisites: graduate standing in sociology.
Prerequisite courses
SOCG 212 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have SOCG 212 as a prerequisite.