Human Societies

An introduction to comparative sociology. The course surveys social inequality in human societies. Topics include a discussion of major types of societies that existed, social inequality across social classes, gender and race/ethnicities, as well as population issues, development of technology, and family structure that underlie a society's stratification system. The second part of the course focuses on social inequality in the contemporary world. We examine social inequality along three main social ''faultlines'': economic classes, race/ethnicity, and gender/sex. The course provides a brief introduction to social genomics, which incorporates recent advances in genomics in social sciences. Honors version available.