Bachelor
2021/2022
Social Structure and Social Stratification
Type:
Compulsory course (Sociology and Social Informatics)
Area of studies:
Sociology
Delivered by:
Department of Sociology
When:
2 year, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Daniil A. Alexandrov,
Alla Loseva,
Natalya V. Pecherskaya,
Larisa Leonidovna Shpakovskaya
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
32
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.