Does Meritocracy counter Inequality?

September 30

Class Struggle and the Structure of Power

  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party. (Source: Farganis, Chapter 1, pp. 26-37)
  • C. Wright Mills, The Structure of Power in America. (Source: Farganis, Chapter 8, pp. 241-249)
  • Zwiegenhaft & Domhoff: The Ironies of Diversity, (Farganis, Chapter 8, pp. 250-262)
  • Recommended: Ralf Dahrendorf, Social Structure, Group Interests, and Conflict Groups. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 8, pp. 222-40)
October 2

Stratification

  • Max Weber, Class, Status, Party. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 3, pp. 116-125)
  • Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, Some Principles of Stratification. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 7, pp. 183-190)
October 4
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Social Reproduction and Its Discontents

  • Robert K. Merton, Manifest and Latent Functions. (Source: J. Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter7:201-218)
  • J. Anyon 1980, Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work. (Reserve)

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