Students should understand some of the means by which status is achieved and inequality legitimated. Social Stratification and Inequality . Promises Not Kept . Shifts in the Social Contract . There is no extra credit work.
Exams are a combination of multiple choice and short answers questions.
There are no make up exams without an excused absence. Make up exams will be significantly more difficult than regular exams. Letter grades are assigned on a 10 point scale. Compare three state welfare reform programs. Discuss the issue of welfare reform, how each state's program was developed and is supposed to work, and the successes and shortcoming of each.