Tuesday, August 31
Introductions
Discussion:
Experiences of inequality |
Thursday,
September 2
Concepts and Theories
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Tuesday,
September 7
Discussion: Readings
Read: Marger, Chapter 1, plus
pages 25, 28-30, 37-39, and 45-48 of Chapter 2 |
Thursday, September 9
Interactive Exercise |
Tuesday,
September 14
Class in the United States
Read: Marger, Chapter
3
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Thursday, September 16
The Underclass and Welfare "Reform"
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Tuesday,
September 21
Video:
"Poverty Outlaw"
Read: Marger, Chapter 6
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Thursday,
September 23
The Working Poor |
Tuesday,
September 28
Discussion: Ehrenreich, Chapter 1
Interview forms for 10/12 given out
Read:
Ehrenreich, Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2
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Thursday, September 30
Discussion: Ehrenreich, Chapter 2
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Tuesday,
October 5
Video:
"True Cost of Shopping at Walmart"
Discussion: Ehrenreich, Chapter 3
Read: Ehrenreich,
Chap. 3, Evaluation, and Afterword |
Thursday, October 7
Discussion: Ehrenreich,
Evaluation and Afterword |
Tuesday,
October
12
The Classes in the Middle
Read: Marger, Chapter
5
Interviews due |
Thursday, October 14
The Changing Global Economy
Report on Interviews |
Tuesday,
October 19
M I D T E R M E X A M |
Thursday, October 21
Social Mobility
Read: Marger, Chapter
7
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Tuesday,
October 26
The Upper Classes
Interview forms for 11/9 given out
Read: Marger, Chapter
4 |
Thursday, October 28
Interactive Exercise |
Tuesday,
November 2
Political Inequality
Read: Marger, Chapter
13 |
Thursday, November 4
Public Policy |
Tuesday,
November 9
The Prison-Industrial Complex
Interviews due
Read: Marger, Chapter
9 |
Thursday, November 11
Video: "Prisons for Profit" |
Tuesday,
November 16
Institutional
Racism
Interview forms for 11/30 given out
Read: Marger, Chapter
10 |
Thursday, November 18
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration |
Tuesday,
November 23
The School-to-Prison Pipeline
Read: Marger, Chapter
11
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November
24-28
T H A N K S G I V I N G B R E A K
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Tuesday,
November 30
Video: "Killing Us Softly"
Interviews due
Read: Marger, Chapter
12
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Thursday, December
2
Gender Inequality
Report on Interviews |
Tuesday,
December 7
Ideology and Change
Read: Marger, Chapter 8 +
pp. 384-388
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Thursday, December 9
Discussion: What social inequality means to me |
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L E X A M S: D E C E M B E R 1
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