@article{Ross_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Class Status and Power}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/class-status-and-power}, abstractNote={This is the foundation course for all of sociology, for it begins to answer the fundamental questions: how are the things that humans value distributed among them, and why do some get more of those things than others? We will study class -- the economic and social division of material goods and authority; status -- the differential honor or respect different groups of persons obtain from others; and power -- the ability to realize one’s will in the context of social life.The course will give you concepts with which to understand inequality and how it changes over time and space; information about inequality in the United States and other similar societies; and skills in finding and using data on income, poverty and power.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Ross, Robert}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }