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Social Inequality in Modern Society
Magdalena Pokrzywa, PhD
English
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Social Work
Faculty of Sociology and History / Institute of Sociology
Małgorzata Bozacka
Summer semester (Feb-Jun), academic year 2014/2015
Sufficient command of English
This course explores the causes and consequences of current inequalities
in the modern society. We will begin by discussing theories and concepts
that scholars use to understand different forms of inequality and explain
its persistence. We will then turn to the central institutions and
mechanisms that sociologists argue are responsible for creating,
reproducing, reducing and changing the structure of inequalities in the
modern society, including: education, labour markets, families and social
policies, neighbourhoods and country, segregation, gender, stratification,
race, ethnicity, social class and the criminal justice system.
Class will provide students with introductions to the social inequality in
modern society. Students will learn how to identify and explain social
inequality.
Special stress will be place on the following issues:
 Inequality from a social perspective—theories of class and
stratification
 Overview of economic inequality in the modern society - poverty
and social exclusion
 Social inequalities across race
 Social inequalities across social class
 Social inequalities across gender
 Social inequalities across sexuality
 Income inequality and family background
 Families, inequality and policy
 Education inequality
 Health Inequalities
 Social inequalities across human capital and labour markets
 Public policy, power and inequality
 Active participation in class - As a student in this course you are
expected to attend classes regularly, be engaged, and actively
participate in class.
 One formal presentations (20-25 minutes) to the class over the one of
the topic.
Material will be provided during the classes