SOCI 314 - Unequal Educations

3SS
Second Semester.  This course focuses on education as a social institution and the inequalities structured within it.  Using theory and empirical evidence, education in the United States will be examined from pre-school through post-secondary levels.  The intersections of education and other institutions, (e.g. political, economic and familial) are analyzed and include discussions of race/ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.  Further, the role of education in social reproduction and social control will be examined.