SOC647 POWER, STATUS AND SOCIAL RANK
| Course Code: | 2320647 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. HEDİYE SİBEL KALAYCIOĞLU |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Students will comprehend the concepts of inequality, social justice and social class and recognise the intersection with other forms of inequalities in the area of gender, race and ethnicity, poverty, consumption and citizenship.
Course Content
Current debates on selected issues in stratification and social mobility. Patterns of status and class differentiation in relation to division of labor, prestige, and esteem. Class formation and internal class divisions. Poulantzas, E. O. Wright and P. Bourdieu on class and status; class and consumption, life-style; class and gender; class and race and ethnicity migration; class and poverty; class and citizenship.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. The student will make sense of the major theories of inequalities and class
2. The student will be able to illustrate the intersectionality of class with gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship, poverty, consumption,
3. The student will be able to explain various aspects of Turkish inequality structure using major theories of inequality and class.