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Fall 2014 | SOC 3201 Section 001: Inequality: Introduction to Stratification (34368)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 60
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Causes, dimensions, and consequences of inequality in America. Class, gender, race. Power/status differentials. Cross-national patterns. Social mobility. Educational/occupational influences. Status attainment. Social stratification/change. Social welfare. Public policies.
- Class Description:
- This course examines the basic concepts and theories sociologists use to describe and explain social stratification and inequality. The textbook for the class is Social Stratification and Inequality. Lectures will focus on the contents of selected chapters that all students are required to read. There are twelve short, in-class quizzes (50% of final grade), and each of which has five simple questions about the contents of the chapter lectured in the week prior to the quiz. Ten best of the quizzes are recorded, or students may miss any two quizzes. For a term-paper study project (50% of the final grade), each student is required to conduct interviews of two families about their relative standings in the American stratification system. For this term project, students are requested to submit (1) a study outline of 1-2 pages (5% of final grade), which describes the plan of the study about which families to be studied, how to conduct the interviews/observations, and what to be focused in these interviews/observations; and (2) the term paper (8-10 pages, 45% of final grade), which reports and analyzes the results of interviews/observations. NO final exam.
- Grading:
- 40% Reports/Papers
10% Special Projects
50% Quizzes Other Grading Information: 10% "Special Projects" is for a study outline of 1-2 pages.
- Exam Format:
- No exam. But each quiz is one page of 5 T/F or multiple-choice questions.
- Class Format:
- 85% Lecture
10% Discussion
5% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 20 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
1 Special Project(s)
10 Quiz(zes)
Other Workload: "Special Projects" is the study outline.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34368/1149
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/bianx001_SOC3201_Spring2024.pdf (Spring 2024)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/bianx001_SOC3201_Fall2019.pdf (Fall 2019)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/bianx001_SOC3201_Fall2016.pdf (Fall 2016)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 March 2014
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2014 Sociology Classes Taught by Yanjie Bian