Methodology of Social Inequality Research
Course: Sociаl Technologies
Structural unit: Faculty of Sociology
Title
Methodology of Social Inequality Research
Code
ОК2
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
1.1. Knowledge of contemporary theoretical discussion and interpretations on social inequality manifestations.
1.2. Knowledge both of the advanced contemporary methodologies of complex social inequality study, and of their heuristics and limitations.
2.1. Skills of justification of research methodology and development of research design on complex social inequality study.
2.2. Skills of diagnostic and interpretation of social inequality manifestations using the sociological methodology.
2.3. Skills of searching and analysis of empirical data on social inequality using of the modern theories, methodologies and databases.
3.1. Skills of working in international surround, reading the professional literature, academic writing and discussion.
4.1. Skills of independent and responsible designing of inequality research using the advanced methodologies and research experience of the Global Sociology.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. To know the basic theories of social structure and stratification.
2. To be able to work with and analyze sociological data using mathematical tools.
3. To be able to work with academic texts in English.
Course content
Challenges of social inequalities to society and Sociology. Dilemmas of inequality; research strategies and methodologies. Multicriterial functional methodologies: complex inequality of status; inequality of human being (G. Thorborn).
Neoinstitutional methodology: Capability approach (A.Sen, LSE).
Methodologies of class and cross-sectional analysis.
Contemporary social inequalities regulation in society.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Abigail McKnight, Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Polly Vizard (2018) Multi-dimensional Inequality Framework \ Atlantic Fellows.
Cowel Frank A. Measuring Inequality. Oxford University Press. P. 75-98.
Gimpelson V., Treisman D. Misperceiving Inequality \ IZA Discussion Paper No. 9100. June 2015. 41 p.
Grusky D. The Contours of Social Stratification - http://www.sociology.kharkov.ua/rus/focus.php
Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe. The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in. Industrial Societies. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 429 p.
Savage M., Devine F. etc. A New Model of Social Class: Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment \\ Sociology - April Vol. 47, No. 2 , 2013. P.220-249.
Therborn, Göran (2013). The Killing Fields of Inequality \\ International Journal of Health Services 42(4):579-89.
Walby S., J.Armstrong, S.Strid. Intersectionality: Multiple Inequalities in Social Theory \\ Sociology. 2012, 46(2). Рр. 224–240.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, practice session, individual work, team mini-research.
Assessment methods and criteria
1) Participation in discussions, express-survey in class – LO 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.
2) Test control – LO 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
3) Practical, analytical tasks – LO 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1
4) Analytical report – LO 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1
5) Team research project – LO 2.1., 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
6) Presentation with the following-up discussion of the team research outcomes – LO 3.1, 4.1.
Language of instruction
ukrainian
Lecturers
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