Sociology 441: Stratification

Evidence

Debates about inequality are not just matters of opinion.

Undergraduates can, in fact, engage quite successfully in finding the evidence necessary to evaluate many causal ideas.  We will do this throughout the semester, especially in several short exercises in which you will be asked to find data relevant to a particular causal hypothesis.

Some examples are:

• Trends in inequality over time
• Comparisons among states or counties
• Comparisons across countries
• Comparisons of types of individuals