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Methodology of Social Inequality Research

ОК05

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2021/2022

2 Semester

9

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.

Full-time form

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.

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. Perception of social inequality in a society. Methodologies of economic inequality and discrimination research. Research methodologies on life level and quality of life. Class analysis methodologies by J.Goldthorpe, G.Esping-Andersen, A.Sorensen: inequality of employability, market, labor and rent situations. Neo-Marxian class methodology by E.O. Write: relations of control, ownership, exploitation, alienation. Socio-cultural methodologies of class analysis by P. Bourdieu, M. Savage. European social-economic classification. Heuristic prospects and unsolved issues in social inequality studies in Ukrainian society.

Abigail McKnight, Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Polly Vizard (2018) Multi-dimensional Inequality Framework \ Atlantic Fellows. Bourdieu P. The Forms of Capital \\ Richardson, J. Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education. – Ch.1. - Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. - Pp. 241–258. 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. Sabina Alkire. The Capability Approach and Human Development \ Microsoft PowerPoint - OPHI-HDCA SS11 - Intro to the Capability Approach, SA.ppt - Slides 1-22.

Lecture, practice session, individual work, mini-research in groups.

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) Development of research project methodology – LO 2.4, 4.1. 7) Presentation with the following-up discussion of the team research outcomes – LO 3.1, 4.1.

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