1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Social Sciences
3. winter term 2024/2025
4. WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Sociology - Second-cycle Erasmus programme
5. The Problems of Social Stratification

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The Problems of Social Stratification - course description

Aim of the course

The aim of the subject is providing students of knowledge of different dimensions of social stratification (f.e. cultural, professional, class, regional, generational and other dimensions). Providing knowledge of different perspectives in social stratification theories and about results of empirical studies about it.

Prerequisites

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No special prerequisites

Scope

1. Social problems. Social stratification.
2. Theories of social stratification.
3. Theories about elits.
4. Theories of national and ethnical divisions.
5. New Middle class.
6. Underclass conceptions.
7. The old and the new dimensions of division of society.
8. Participating in public sphere.
9. Social exclusion.
10. Digital exclusion problems.
11. Poverty as a social problem.
12. Social conflicts and stratification.

Teaching methods

Lecture with discussion, class discussion. Small groups discussion. Multimedia learning process – using Power Point presentations, use of filmstrips, recordings etc. Open textbook study. Problem solving or case studies. Individual student work (e.g. reading and analysis) according to the teacher's instructions.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Credit with grade on the basis of presentation and written papers. The class will be divided up into discussion/presentation groups.  Students will organize and prepare oral presentations and demonstrations to the class explaining assigned chapters from the texts.  Each student is likely to make one presentation during the semester.

Recommended reading

1. Adamski, P. Machonin, W. Zapf (red.), Structural Change and Modernization in Post-Socialist Societies, red. W. “Krämer”, Hamburg 2002.

Further reading

1.       Corak M., Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility. Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 no.

2.       Higley J., Lengyel G. (2000), Elites after State Socialism. Theories and Analysis, Roman & Littlefield Publisher, INC.,  Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford 2000.

3.       Goldthorpe J.H., Social mobility and class structure in modern Britain, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980.

Notes

Modified by dr Magdalena Pokrzyńska (last modification: 22-04-2024 16:57)