Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 2 ***** Analyses of schools as social institutions which reflect, maintain, and perpetrate inequality in society. In a seminar format, contemporary sociological perspectives are brought to bear on the intended and unintended functions and purposes of schooling. Status attainment and social reproduction models provide frameworks for understanding the relation between social class origin, school achievement, and socioeconomic mobility.