Cultural Processes in the Production of Inequality

Abstract

INVITED RESOURCE. ASA President Michèle Lamont introduces students to the cultural processes of the production of social inequality in this graduate level seminar. Topics include: microsociology, the production of social and symbolic boundaries; cultural scripts in the construction of stigma; new developments in the study of identity, ethno-racial and...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Cultural Sociology

Resource Type(s):

Syllabus

Class Level(s):

Graduate

Class Size(s):

Small

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Demonstrate understanding of the cultural processes involved in the production of social inequality.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Understanding will be assessed using a short research paper "without results" where students are asked to develop a research question, theoretical argument, and research design on a topic central to the course.