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SOC218Undergraduate

Social Class and Mobility

Printed in the catalogue as SOCIAL CLASS AND MOBILITY

Course content

Inequality, stratification and mobility in relation to social position. Types and dimensions of social inequality. Theories of social stratification. Different types of social strata; class, caste, estate, status, power elite. The underprivileged and the lower strata. Relations among social classes. Bases and mechanisms of social status, individual, group and stratum mobility.

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