Schedule
Class will meet on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 6:00-8:30PM, in the Egon Mayer Computer Lab, 3611 James Hall. Summer session I begins on June 2 and ends on July 7.
Students should do the assigned readings in advance of the class meeting in which they will be discussed. Our required texts include:
i) The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality, by Dennis Gilbert. Pine Forge, 2008. [ISBN 978-1-4129-5414-3]
ii) Readings in Social Class Stratification, a custom reader, available in the bookstore [ISBN 978-0-558-19705-6].
1. Social Class in America
T 6/2) Read: Gilbert 1; Davis & Moore, Tumin.
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TH 6/4) Assignment: Community Profile. Due by midnight on SU 6/21. UPDATE
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2. Position and Prestige
T 6/9) Read: Gilbert 2; Mills, Lewis.
3. Social Class, Occupation, and Social Change
TH 6/11) Read: Gilbert 3; Gans, Wilson.
4. Wealth and Income
T 6/16) Read: Gilbert 4; Giddens, Reich, Perrucci & Wysong.
5. Socialization, Association, Lifestyles, Values
TH 6/18) Read: Gilbert 5; Rogers-Dillon, Jarrett.
6. Social Mobility
T 6/23) Read: Gilbert 6; Ehrenreich, Cox.
7. Elites, the Capitalist Class, and Political Power
TH 6/25) Read: Gilbert 8; Hofferth, Rodrik (handout) UPDATE.
8. Class Consciousness and Class Conflict
T 6/30) Read: Gilbert 9; Sidel, Cookson & Hodges Persell.
@ 9. The Poor, the Underclass, and Public Policy
TH 7/2) Read: Gilbert 10 & 11.
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Assignment: Term paper. Due by midnight on T 7/7.
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