Sociology
SOCL 3450: Class, Power, and Social Change
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Explores theories and research on the institutionalized forms of inequality that have accompanied the rise of advanced capitalism in Western society.
- Major topics include the competing definitions of class that have developed among social scientists; the relation between class and race in the United States; how class and gender have intersected historically; and the link between workers' movements, political systems, and the forms that capitalist development has assumed in Western Europe and the United States.
- Students conduct projects in which they explore the conceptions of social justice held by members of subordinate groups.
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