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Sep 20, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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SOC 214 Global Inequality Credits: (3)
This course provides a foundation for understanding social and economic inequality on a global level. Students will study and compare the causes and solutions to inequality issues across various communities in both developed and underdeveloped nations. Issues to be covered include hunger, modern slavery, human and indigenous rights, disease, human trafficking, ethnic violence, homelessness and displacement, and unemployment and labor issues. Students will consider solution models to inequality issues from various perspectives including religious, governmental, philanthropic, not-for-profit, and non-governmental organizations. Students will receive training in the sociological research methods used to measure and understand global inequities.
Designation(s): Liberal Arts
Learning Outcomes
- Illustrate how global inequities are understood from cultural relativistic, functionalist, and conflict perspectives in sociology.
- Contrast how inequalities impact peoples across geographies, regions, and borders, thereby conveying an understanding of a cross-cultural perspective on global inequalities.
- Apply micro- and macro-sociological methods to the study of global inequalities, from urban ethnography to quantitative demography.
- Illustrate an understanding of social policies aimed at correcting inequality trends.
- Explain the relationship between social structure and the lived experience of poverty from the perspective of various communities from around the world.
- Describe the antagonism between structural and natural explanations of social inequalities.
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