Stratification, Inequality & Social Reproduction¶

Human Worlds

What you will develop¶

Separate distribution, causal mechanisms, and normative judgments; explain persistence and change in advantage.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Power, Authority, Legitimacy & Resistance
• Markets, Prices, Firms & Property
• Money, Credit, Finance & Macroeconomic Coordination
• States, Law, Constitutions & Public Administration
• Regimes, Representation, Parties, Media & Political Competition
• Interaction, Identity, Norms & Influence
• Networks, Diffusion, Brokerage & Segregation

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• wealth
• income
• class
• status
• race
• caste
• ethnicity
• gender
• disability
• mobility
• reproduction
• spatial inequality

Wealth, income, class & status¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Race, caste, ethnicity, gender & disability as institutions¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Mobility, reproduction & cumulative advantage¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Spatial inequality, segregation & distributional incidence¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Intended demonstration¶

Distribution ledger + reproduction mechanism + counterexample

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 9: Social Stratification
• The Logic of Collective Action (concentrated vs diffuse interests)

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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