SOC202 Race, Gender, and Class

This course teaches students to critically discuss personal and social identities based on differences resulting from categories of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class. The course uses a constructionist approach to explain the existing inequalities and tensions based on categories of difference resulting from structures of power and privilege that use social, political, and economic ideologies to discriminate against minority groups. Students use critical thinking and reflection to analyze the experience of diversity and difference in American society and to explore approaches to transform the roots causing inequalities based on race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class. (Formerly SOC126)