Practical Session 1

Marx’s Theory of Economic Recessions

Class viewing Masters of Money: Marx

 

Practical session 2

Marx and Weber: Similarities and Differences

Reading and presenting:

Marx, C. and Engles, F. 1848. The Communist Manifesto

Weber, M. 1922. Science as a Vocation

Wright, E.O. 2000. “The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber” (Section 1 and 2)

 

Practical session 3

Contemporary Class Schemas:

Reading and presenting:

Breen, R. 2005. “A Weberian Approach to Class Analysis” in Erik Olin Wright (ed.) Alternative Foundations of Class Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 31-50.  

Tahlin, M. 2007. “Class Clues”. European Sociological Review, 23(5): 557- 572.

 

Practical session 4 

Class Mobility

Mobility Exercise: The mobility table

Working in a class room. Calculating social mobility

 

Practical session 5 

Comparative Research on Social Mobility

Reading and presenting:

Kohn, M. L. 1987. “Cross-National Research as an Analytic Strategy”. American Sociological Review, 52:713-731.

Ishida, H., Mueller, W. and Ridge, J. M. (1995) “Class Origin, Class Destination and Education: A Cross-National Study of Ten Industrial Nations”. American Journal of Sociology, 101:145-193.

Breen, R. 2010. “Educational Expansion and Social Mobility in the Twentieth Century” Social Forces, 89(2): 365-88.

 

Practical session 6 

Educational attainment and the meritocracy debate

 

Class viewing Educational System in Finland

 

Practical session 7

The meritocracy debate

Reading and presenting:

Saunders, P. 1996 “Might Britain be a Meritocracy?” Sociology, 29(1): 23-41.

Breen, R. and Goldthorpe, J.H. 1999.  “Class Inequality and Meritocracy: A Critique of Saunders and an Alternative Analysis”.  British Journal of Sociology, 50:1-27.

 

Practical Session 8

Investigating Primary Effects

Reading and presenting:

Duncan G.J., Magnuson, K. and Vortuba-Drzal, E. 2014. “Boosting Family Inciome to Promote Child Development”. The Future of Children, 24(1):99-120.

 

Practical Session 9

A global perspective on inequality

Reading and presenting:

Milanovic, B. 2012. “Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: in History and Now”

 

Practical session 10

Inequality and  homogamy

Reading and presenting:

Kalmijn, M.1998. “Intermarriage and homogamy: Causes, patterns, trends”. Annual review of sociology, 395-421. 2. Smits, J., Ultee, W., & Lammers, J. 1998. “Educational homogamy in 65 countries: An explanation of differences in openness using country-level explanatory variables”. American Sociological Review, 264-285.

Greenwood, J. et al. 2014 “Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality” NBER Working Paper No. 19829 

 

Practical session 11  

Is the gender wage gap a myth?

In-class readings and debating

Gneezy, U. and Rustichini A. “Gender and competition at a young age”

 “Blind auditions key to hiring musicians” Princeton Weekly Bulletin

 

Class viewing: Minding the racial wage gap: Do Women earn less than men?”

Task: Refute the arguments put forward by Profesor Horowitz’s drawing on what you have learnt from Lesson 11

 

Practical session 12

Explaining gender differences in Labour-Market behaviour

A guided tour around inequality databases: OECD, LIS, Eurostat, the World Bank, and the Gap Minder 

Class viewing: Television’s Impact on the Status of Women in India

 

Practical session 13

Racial prejudice and processes of racial categorization

Class viewing:

Minding the racial wage gap

Changing Race by Changing Clothes

Eye Of The Storm