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Oct 23, 2026
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SOC 2207 - Social Inequalities
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course is a survey of social inequalities and power differentials in society and examines social, cultural, and social psychological aspects related to the sociology of power. Among the topics covered are how race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexuality, religion, and/or other social inequalities are connected to social stratification, minority/majority relations, and other sociological patterns.
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: College-level reading and writing
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC) Goal Area(s) fulfilled: Goal 05B: History and the Social and Behavioral Science, Goal 07A & 07B: Human Diversity, Race, Power, and Justice in the United States
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Evaluate data and material from diverse sources and points of view.
- Demonstrate understanding of concepts and structures related to social stratification, inequality, prejudice, and discrimination.
- Demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture, its related components, and social responses to cultural variation.
- Demonstrate understanding of the differing means by which individuals and groups perform social and structural roles as they are related and impacted by social inequality.
- Examine causes and sources of social inequality from the personal to societal and institutional levels.
- Demonstrate understanding of sociological theories of various minority and majority relations and the role of power differences in those relations.
- Evaluate patterned status differences that result in differences in power and the implications they have for shaping social interaction and constructing social inequality.
- Examine past and current efforts that aim to decrease sources of social inequality.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Culture; cultural components; responses to cultural variation for minority/majority relations and for student views into minority/majority relations
- Stratification; social inequality from personal to social/structural
- Social class, race and ethnicity, sex and gender and other statuses (such as, but not limited to, sexual orientation, physical ability, national origin, etc.) allowing a view into minority/majority relations
- Sources and evidence related to prejudice and discrimination
- Attempts at reducing sources or forms of social inequality
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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