SOC 305 - Power and Society

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2012-2013.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor. An analysis of the concept of power is followed by an examination of the distribution and exercise of power in hunting and gathering, agrarian, industrial, and post-industrial societies. Special attention is devoted to the neo-Marxist, elitist, and pluralist accounts of power in American society and their implications for social stratification. Staff.