Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Социальная структура и социальная стратификация
ID 1029346
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Социология и социальная информатика)
Кто читает:
Департамент социологии
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
That people have unequal sets of choices available to them is probably the key message of social science. We welcome you to the course where you will learn how social inequality is structured, reproduced and experienced. A complex of social institutions that generate the inequalities in valued goods, including but not limited to income, wealth and power, is what we call a stratification system. During the course, you will become equipped with analytical and methodological tools to study stratification. In the first weeks, you will learn the concepts and categories that guide our perception of inequality. Then we will discuss how the inequality can be measured empirically. Afterwards, you will study the mechanisms behind stratification systems, and their different aspects. The final weeks of the course are devoted to the theories putting together the previously studied concepts, measures, and mechanisms.
Learning Objectives
- Сhoose appropriate theoretical concepts to describe real-world manifestations of social inequality
- Select optimal indicators to study inequality
- Produce coherent explanations of the mechanisms behind stratification systems
- Use theoretical models to interpret the results of empirical research
Expected Learning Outcomes
- be able to apply theoretical concepts to the analysis of the real-life manifestations of social inequality, to suggest mechanisms of mitigating the effects of social inequality through analyzing social processes on multiple levels
- be able to identify the scientific essence of problems in one’s professional area, to choose appropriate theoretical concepts to describe real-world manifestations of social inequality and stratification, to produce coherent explanations of the mechanisms behind stratification systems, to use theoretical models to interpret the results of empirical research
- be able to select optimal indicators to study inequality, to identify social and cognitive mechanisms that bias one’s perception of social structure, to develop conceptual models of social and individual processes that reproduce social structure, to operationalize the concepts and categories of social structure using appropriate indices
- be able to support theoretical arguments with empirical data, to elaborate collectively on the mechanisms of social stratification, to critically evaluate empirical data to argue on the matters of social stratification
Course Contents
- Categories of Social Structure
- Operationalizing Inequality
- Faces and Effects of Inequality
- Social Stratification Analysis
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 4th module0.3 * Quiz + 0.4 * Written exam + 0.15 * Particpation in class + 0.15 * Home assignment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
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- Lees, Nicholas. The International Relations of the North–South Divide: Historical Inequality, Contemporary Disagreement and World Politics. 1st, First Edition ed., Bristol University Press, 2026. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.26218435.
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- Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation : Changing Perspectives, edited by Ray C. Rist, et al., World Bank Publications, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4397393.
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Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Alienated Politics: Labour Insurgency and the Paternalistic State in China, Eli Friedman, first published: 27 August 2014, EISSN: 1467-7660
- Development and Underdevelopment. The Political Economy of Inequality, , 1993
- Huisman J., Smolentseva A., Froumin I. 25 years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countries: reform and continuity. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Бедность в детстве и в старости: не только дефицит доходов - Малева Т. М., Гришина Е. Е., Карцева М. А., Кузнецова П. О. - Издательский дом "Дело" РАНХиГС - 978-5-7749-1449-4 - 2019 - русский - https://e.lanbook.com/book/171123 - ЛАНЬ - 171123
- Зубаревич Н.В. - Региональная и социальная политика в России: "брак по расчету" - НИЦ ИНФРА-М - 2014 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/document?id=279037 - 279037 - ZNANIUM
- Миллениалы : как меняется российское общество, Радаев, В. В., 2019