Mar 19, 2024  
2021-2022 Catalog and Handbook 
    
2021-2022 Catalog and Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 203 - Race, Class and Gender (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None
Race, class and gender often frame social relations in structures of inequality marked by differential access to power, resources, and opportunity. In this course we explore the historic and social roots that have given rise to minority-dominant power relations in society. Students will use their “sociological imagination” and real-life experiences to envision how race, ethnicity, gender and other categories of difference - i.e., age, religion, sexual orientation, physical abilities, and geographic region-intersect with institutions to create and reinforce minority statuses. Special emphasis will be given to inequality and work.