Therefore, it is essential that graduate student in sociology be exposed to theories and perspectives that shed light on race, racial inequality in particular. To this end, this class will explore the diverse theoretical perspectives and sociological research on race. This course draws primarily on ethnographic research to examine how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by, and serve to reproduce or challenge, various kinds of inequalities. The premise of the course is that inequalities are created and maintained by the actions of hinking and feeling human beings, and therefore it is impossible to understand the existence or persistence of inequality without taking the actor, interpretation, and interaction into account. Barbara J. Risman is Professor of Sociology at NCSU and Director of the Graduate Program in the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
Current research focuses on the development of women's activism in post-soviet Russia.
Yale University Press. Michael Schulman is Professor of Sociology at NCSU and Adjunct Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the UNC-School of Public Health, Chapel Hill. He currently serves as editor of the Rural Studies Series, the scholarly monograph series sponsored by the Rural Sociological Society and published by Penn State University Press. The Increasing Complexity of Subordination and Struggle in a Southern Community. Temple University Press, 1999.