Prof Michael Savage STC S210

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science. This course is not available as an outside option.

The course will consider interdisciplinary approaches to inequality, focusing on (a) how inequality can be conceptualised and explained, (b) how it can be measured and (c) ethical and political issues. Topics to be covered include patterns and trends in economic inequalities; gender, ethnicity, class and age; cultural aspects of inequality; social and intergenerational mobility; global and comparative perspectives; geographical and neighbourhood polarisation; health and educational inequalities; media representation of inequalities; ethical and philosophical approaches; the impact of government, law and social policy.

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of classes in the ST.

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT and 1 mock exam in the LT.

David Grusky (ed), Social Social Stratification; class, race and gender in sociological perspective, Westview

Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (ed. W. Salverda, B. Nolan and T. Smeeding, OUP, 2009)

Changing fortunes: Income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain (S,Jenkins, OUP, 2011)

Exam (50%, duration: 3 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (25%, 3000 words) in the LT.
Essay (25%, 3000 words) in the ST.

Two hard copies of each assessed essay, with submission sheets attached to each, to be handed in to the International Inequalities Institute office TW1 8.01F, no later than 16:30 on the submission day. The first essay is due by the second Wednesday of Lent Term and the second essay is due by the second Wednesday of Summer Term. An additional copy of each essay is to be uploaded to Moodle no later than 18:00 on the same day each essay is due.