SOC 2208

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SOC 2208
Social Inequality

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course reviews contemporary approaches to understanding social inequality and the processes by which it comes to be seen as legitimate, natural, or desirable. We address questions of the following kind: what are the major forms of stratification in human history? Are inequality and poverty inevitable? How many social classes are there in advanced industrialism societies? Is there a ruling class? Are lifestyles, attitudes, and personalities shaped fundamentally by class membership? Can individuals born into poverty readily escape their class origins and move upward in the class structure? Are social contacts and luck important forces in matching individuals to jobs and class positions? What types of social processes serve to maintain and alter racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination in labor markets? Is there an underclass? These and other questions are addressed in light of classical and contemporary theory and research.


Distribution Requirements (D-AG, SBA-AG), (SCD-AS, SSC-AS)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PUBPOL 2208

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3282 SOC 2208   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For enrollment help, please contact the Department of Sociology, sociology@cornell.edu.

  •  3469 SOC 2208   DIS 201

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    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4256 SOC 2208   DIS 202

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3470 SOC 2208   DIS 203

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3471 SOC 2208   DIS 204

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3472 SOC 2208   DIS 205

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3473 SOC 2208   DIS 206

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3474 SOC 2208   DIS 207

  •  
    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  3950 SOC 2208   DIS 209

  •  
    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Weeden, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person