Sociology of Education

Undergraduate

This is an advanced seminar that introduces students to studies in the Sociology of Education. We examine both quantitative and qualitative studies that examine stratification by race, ethnicity, immigrant status, class, and gender. The class focuses primarily on studies in the US, but we cover a few international studies. We focus on empirical studies of youth from early childhood to post-college, and think more broadly about how longitudinal studies affect our understandings of how schools may help to provide more equal opportunities to students or whether they exacerbate inequality. SO Th 9:25am-11:20am