Prof Diane Perrons TW1, 11.01G

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.

15 hours of lectures and 15 hours of seminars in the MT. 15 hours of lectures and 15 hours of seminars in the LT. 3 hours of classes in the ST.

The course is taught in 20 x one-and-a-half hour lectures, plus 20 x one-and-a-half-hour seminars. It is divided into blocks of related lectures and linked seminars. The ST class is a revision class.

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

Anthony Atkinson -  Inequality: What can be done? (Harvard University Press, 2015)

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

Branko Milanovic - Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (2016)

Hartley Dean and Lucinda Platt (eds), - Social Advantage and Disadvantage, Oxford, 2016

Essay (30%, 3000 words) and presentation (20%) in the LT.
Take home exam (50%) in the ST.

The presentation will be from a group exercise in the LT.

Two hard copies of the assessed essay, with submission sheets attached to each, to be handed in to the International Inequalities Institute administration TW1 8th floor, no later than 16:30 on the submission day.  The essay is due by the first day of LT.  An additional copy of the essay is to be uploaded to Moodle no later than 18:00 on the same day the essay is due.