| Schedule | Census: Historical Income Inequality Tables | Inequality.org | Economic Policy Institute | |
| Institute for Research on Poverty | National Center for Children in Poverty | Growth and Justice |
This course meets the requirement of an inequality course for sociology or criminology majors. It also is open to students in other areas who have successfully completed at least 60 semester credits. Social stratification refers to the layering of society in terms of social class or economic inequalities, although we will give brief attention to the intersection of class with race and gender. Our main focus will be theories and research that can be used to understand social stratification in the United State, although we can't understand the U.S. stratification system without some attention to worldwide inequalities.