Social Stratification

Aннотация:
This course aims at introducing students to key theorists and some basic facts of social stratification. We will first look at concepts that originated in the classic tradition of Marx Weber and Durkheim. In a second step we will investigate how these concepts and their consecutive interpretation and advancement have been applied to the empirical environment in America (US) and Europe (UK and the Republic of Ireland). The course will end with a discussion of the relationship between an assumed political equality (citizenship) and actually existing social inequality.