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Study Course Description

Social Inequality and Stratification

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
SUPK_090
Branch of Science
Sociology and social work; Theory and History of Sociology
ECTS
6.00
Target Audience
Sociology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

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Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
6.00
Contact hours:
40 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
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Bibliography

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

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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.

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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.

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Mūrnieks Ē. Sabiedrības sociāli ekonomiskā stratifikācija. RTU, Rīga, 2000.

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Outhwaite W., Ray L. Social Theory of Post Communism. Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

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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.

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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.