Power, Structures and Inequality

Students understand the ways in which power, structures and inequality contribute to the construction of social reality, social institutions and the practices maintained by them. Students are able to analyse social change and the relationship between structures and actions, as well as to recognise the links between power and inequality. They are familiar with the concepts used by the key approaches to these aspects.

The book examination covers three of the following items:

Edwards, Gemma (2014) Social Movements and Protest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Heikkilä, Riie (2022) Understanding Cultural Non-Participation in an Egalitarian Context. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Kadushin, Charles (2012) Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts and Findings. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lamont, Michèle, et al. (2016) Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Lareau, Annette (2011) Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. (Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later.) Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lukes, Steven (2005) Power: A Radical View. (Second Edition.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Purhonen, Semi, et al. (2018) Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960--2010. London: Routledge.

Rivera, Lauren (2016) Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Savage, Mike (2021) The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.