Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC2021: Understanding Social Inequalities

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Basic reading:

 

Crompton, R. (2008). Class and Stratification. Cambridge: Polity.

 

Grusky, D.B. and Weisshaar, K. (2014) Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press.

 

Jackson, M. (Ed.) (2013). Determined to succeed? Performance versus choice in educational attainment. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

Payne, G. (2013) Social Divisions (3rd Edition). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. 

 

Payne, G. (2017) The New Social Mobility. Bristol: Policy Press.

 

Platt, L. (2011). Understanding Inequalities: Stratification and Difference. Cambridge: Polity Press.