SOCI 309 Sociology of Wealth and Poverty
In this course, students will study and contrast the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless, the haves and the have-nots. More importantly, it asks important questions such as"Why does such inequality exit in every known society?" It then builds a frame of reference from which to view the social and personal meanings of structured, legitimized social inequality, and to explore Christian responses to injustice and inequity in the world.Prerequisite: SOC 101. (Offered spring semester of even calendar years.)