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Social Inequality and Stratification
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:28
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SUPK_090 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Theory and History of Sociology | Target Audience: | Sociology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ritma Rungule | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 16 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 32 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
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| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 3 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 5 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 6 | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 8 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 9 | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 10 | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 11 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
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| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Clark T.N., Lipset S.M. Are Social Classes Dying? – International Sociology, Vol.6. No. 4, 1991, p. 397-410. | ||||||||
| 2 | Dahrendorf R. On the Origin of Inequality among Men. http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/dcrawford/dahrendorf.pdf | ||||||||
| 3 | Davis K., W.E.Moore. Some Principles of Stratification with Response by Melvin Tumin. - Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, 7th ed., p. 215 - 222. | ||||||||
| 4 | Domanski H. On the Verge of Convergence. Social Stratification in Eastern Europe. Central European University Press, 2000. | ||||||||
| 5 | Grusky D.B. Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective., 1994. | ||||||||
| 6 | Mūrnieks Ē. Sabiedrības sociāli ekonomiskā stratifikācija. RTU, Rīga, 2000. | ||||||||
| 7 | Outhwaite W., Ray L. Social Theory of Post Communism. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. | ||||||||
| 8 | Rose D., Harrison E. The European Socio-economic Classification: a New Social Class Shema for Comparation European Research. – European Societies 9 (3), 2007, p. 459-490. | ||||||||
| 9 | Schuerkens U. (ed.) Globalization and Transformations of Inequality. Routledge, 2010. | ||||||||
| 10 | Standing G. The Precariat. Bloomsbury, 2011 | ||||||||
| 11 | Walby,S. Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities London: Sage.2009. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bards A., Sēderkvists J. Netokrātija. Jumava, 2005 | ||||||||
| 2 | Florida R. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life. 2003 | ||||||||
| 3 | Восленский М. Номенклатура. М: Захаров, 2005. | ||||||||
