Social Stratification
Questions
- Differentiate between open and closed stratification systems
- Describe several types of social mobility
- Discuss the characteristics that define and identify class
- Compare and Contract Global Inequality and US class inequality. What factors may or may not prevent some people in achieving upward mobility?
Read Ch. 9 of OpenStax and the following
- Social Stratification
- Social Stratification in the US
- Global Stratification
- Justice, Inequality and the poor by Ryan Messmore (Winter, 2012)
- Published in National Affairs, No. 36 Summer 2018: Justice, Inequalities and the Poor
- Science and Policy for Sustainable Development: Inequality Policies
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