Social Stratification.

Catalog description

This course is an overview of the relative social positions of people in a given social group, category, geographic region, or other social units with particular emphasis on socioeconomic status based on factors such as wealth, income, social status, occupation, and power. Course contents also include a discussion of the three major divisions of social class (upper class, middle class, and lower class) used in contemporary Western societies to rank categories of people in a hierarchy.