social inequality

Teaching Schedule for the Course on: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Semester: January – April, 2014
Instructor: Satyapriya Rout, Department of Sociology, UoH
Month:
January
Week
Class
Topic
Suggested Readings
I (Jan. 6 – 10)
1
An introduction to stratification analysis
Daniel W. Rossides, Social Stratification (chapter – 1)

2
Meaning and Nature of Stratification
Melvin Tumin, Social Stratification
II (Jan 13 – 17)
3
Stratification Through history
Daniel W. Rossides, Social Stratification (chapter – 2)

4
How societies generate stratification
Melvin Tumin, Social Stratification (Chapter – 3,4,5)
III (Jan. 20 – 24)
5
Interrogating Inequality
Erik Olin Wright, Interrogating Inequality (Chapter – 1)

6
Introduction to Class Analysis – classic inheritance & its debate
Rosemary Crompton, Class and Stratification (Ch. – 1,2)
IV (Jan 27 – 31)
7
Theories of class Structure – Marx
Benedix & Lipset, Class, Status and Power (Sec – 1)

8
Weber – Class, status, party
Benedix & Lipset, Class, Status and Power (Sec – 1)
Month
February
V (Feb. 3 – 7)
9
Inequality and Social Structure – comparison of Marx and Weber
Erik Olin Wright. 2002. ‘The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’, American Sociological Review, Vol. 67, No. 6, 832 – 53.
Reinhard Bendix. 1974. ‘Inequality and Social Structure: A Comparison of Marx and Weber’, American Sociological Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, 149 – 61.
Val Burris. 1987. ‘The Neo-Marxist Synthesis of Marx and Weber on Class’. In Norbert Wiley (ed.) The Marx – Weber Debate, Newbury Park: Sage (chapter – 3)

10
Marx and Weber – Exploitation and Dominance

FIRST INTERNAL TEST – BOOK REVIEW
VI (Feb10 – 14)
11
Does Class Matter – Reshaping and Dissolution of Class in Advanced Society
Jan Pakulski & Malcom Waters. 1996. ‘Reshaping and Dissolution of Class in Advance Society’, Theory and Society, Vol. 25 (5), 667 - 91

12
Does Class Matter – The continuing relevance of class
E. O. Wright. 1996.