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AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES (L98)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)
L98 AMCS 3029And Justice for All? American Inequalities3.0 Units
Description:In recent decades social inequalities have deepened and calcified in the United States. But just what does that mean? How should we conceptualize the particular modes and forms of inequality in the contemporary United States? What is the empirical reality? How did we get here? Why do inequalities persist? How are they reproduced? What are the consequences of such drastic disparities? In this course we examine the empirical reality of social inequality in the United States. At the same time, we raise questions about how social position shapes identity and lived experience in America. Because the focus is on the contemporary U.S., much of the course will be devoted to the examination and analysis of patterns and trends in class, race, and gender inequality in this country. Course readings are drawn from sociology, urban history, economics, social epidemiology, and education. Throughout the course we focus on the development of inequality, what it looks like today, the mechanisms of its reproduction, the culturally diverse ways it is experienced, and possible strategies to ameliorate the stark social disparities characteristic of contemporary America. We also keep in mind the interdisciplinary debate among scholars about how best to define and measure social disparities. We begin the course with an examination of the historical and structural roots of American inequality. Next, we look at some conceptual and methodological tools social scientists use to examine social disparities. We will then turn to the central institutions and mechanisms that sociologists argue are responsible for creating, reproducing, reducing and changing the structure of inequalities in the U.S. today, including education, labor markets, families and social policies, neighborhoods and segregation and the criminal justice system. Within each topic area, we will pay special attention to the significance of race and ethnicity, social class, and gender-as well as their intersections and cle
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