Social Stratification and Inequality Dynamics

Unit 1: New Forms and Systems of Social Stratification

• The sense of social inequality (1)
• The historical course of inequality and social stratification (2-5)
• Increasing inequalities (6-8)
• New approaches to social stratification (8-10)

Item 2: Inequalities in Emerging Societies

• Social impacts of technological change (11-12)
• A new corporate model (12-14)
• Technology and society (15-16)
• The structuring role of science and technology (16-19)
• New technologies and new inequalities (19-23)
• The social structure in the technological age (24-27)

Item 3: The Logic of Social Inequality

• The evolution of social inequalities (27-29)
• Structure of class and inequality (30-33)
• The dysfunctional nature of social inequalities (34-36)
• Main factors of social stratification (37-40)
• Plans for stratification and collective action (40-43)

Item 4: Trends of Social Exclusion

• The logic of social exclusion (43-44)
• The sociological concept of social exclusion (45-47)
• The notion of social citizenship (48-49)
• Economic citizenship and freedom (49)
• The crisis of the welfare state (49-53)
• Physiognomy of social exclusion (53-54)
• Changes in production systems and social exclusion (54-55)
• The dynamics of social exclusion (56-57)
• Main factors of social exclusion (58-59)
• Trends in inequality and social exclusion (60-63)

Item 5: The Social Structure of Infraclasses

• Infraclasses, inequality, and new social systems (64-65)
• The sociological concept of infraclasses (65-67)
• The infraclasses and technological revolution (68-71)
• Different types of infraclasses (72-74)
• Scope of the sociological and political concept (75-77)

Item 6: Poverty in Spain

• The sociological concept of poverty (78)
• The characteristics of the poor (78-79)
• Types of poverty in Spain (79-80)

Item 7: Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and Exclusion

• Sociological concept of homelessness (80)
• The processes of exclusion of the homeless (81)
• Sociological profile of the homeless (81)
• Rehabilitation and recovery (81)
• Future trends (82)