Teaching Social Inequality

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Teaching Social Inequality

9781035347414 Edward Elgar Publishing
Garth Massey, Emeritus Professor of International Studies, University of Wyoming, US
Publication Date: August 2024 ISBN: 978 1 03534 741 4 Extent: 236 pp
The growing chasm between rich and poor, within societies and between nations, has enormous implications not only for people’s well-being and life chances but for the prospects for democracy throughout the world. From the interpersonal to the societal level, social inequality is the central feature of social life. Helping students appreciate and understand this is the most important task of social science instruction.

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The growing chasm between rich and poor, within societies and between nations, has enormous implications not only for people’s well-being and life chances but for the prospects for democracy throughout the world. From the interpersonal to the societal level, social inequality is the central feature of social life. Helping students appreciate and understand this is the most important task of social science instruction.

Garth Massey provides a down-to-earth guide to teaching and learning that emphasizes historically and comparatively the social construction and institutional maintenance of social inequality. It explores approaches to teaching big ideas and theories, along with the challenges raised by the notions and assumptions students bring to class. The author emphasizes how to unpack and make comprehensible the complexity of social inequality in society today and also how to explore the often quantitative understandings provided by contemporary research.

Highly attractive is the accessible style of this book, encouraging open classroom discussion and examination of sometimes contentious topics such as class and racial privilege, homelessness, gender preference and sexual identity, shrinking opportunities for social mobility, and global human migration. Its scope makes it a useful tool for instructors of social movements, globalization, race and ethnicity, gender studies, border studies and all courses that impart an understanding of social life.
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‘Practical and comprehensive, this guide is a wonderful resource for instructors seeking to engage students in an essential and timely area of sociology. Chapters step the instructor through the complexities of teaching a broad and changing field, offering approaches to engage students’ sociological imagination and critical thinking skills.’
– Scott Sernau, Indiana University South Bend, US
Contents
1 Introduction to Teaching Social Inequality 2 From inequality to stratification 3 Typical challenges in teaching social inequality 4 Getting started with big questions 5 Ideas about inequality 6 Theories of inequality: functionalism to power-conflict 7 Inequality as power 8 Stratification and mobility 9 Wealth and poverty 10 Global inequality 11 Consequences of inequality: spillover or by design? 12 Current trends in inequality: forces at play 13 Learning with quantitative material 14 Responding to inequality: social movements 15 Student research on inequality References Appendix: a sample syllabus Index
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