Sociology

Stratification and Social Mobility

Release Date: 2017-09-22

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code:
Course Name: Stratification and Social Mobility
Course Type: Specialty Course
Periods: 54
Credits: 3
Target Students: Majoring in Sociology
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Courses: Introduction to Sociology; Theory of Western Sociology 

2. Brief Course Introduction

     Stratification and Social Mobility is the compulsory curriculum of majors in sociology and the course mainly introduces the drastic stratification and mobility of different social stratums. And it provides an effective perspective for students understand the yielding of different benefits and contradiction among difference groups. The main content includes the concept, the classic theory of stratification and social mobility, the root of the stratification, the effect and restriction system, the current condition in China and the criteria of stratification.