SOC 204 - Intro to Stratification and Inequality in America: D

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Social Sciences
Examines the causes and consequences of inequality and social stratification in the United States. The course materials will invite you to think critically about how systems of power and privilege operate with respect to race, gender, sexual orientation, class, disability and age, why valuable resources like income, wealth, health, education and wellbeing are unequally distributed in the United States, and how this inequality is produced and reproduced through the structure of opportunities, differential life chances and social mobility. Prerequisite: Completed ENGL& 101 with a grade of 2.0 or higher.