Week 13: Concept Mapping: Class, Gender, Race, and the Critique of Marxist Class Analysis and Conventional Sociological Stratification Analysis -- Overview and Textual/Graphical Synthesis of the Course (Dec. 5)

Since the early 1980s, many sociologists have been critical of classical theories of class for ignoring the role of gender and race in theories of social inequality. The concept map due today should be able to utilize these criticisms in your attempt to draw a synthetic overview of this course. These will be posted on the World Wide Web, and will be utilized in the finial examination. Please note that your concept map should be considerable different from the one used for this course.

Weekly Schedule

Course Concept Map

Ed Grabb, Chapter 7, "Theories of Social Inequality: A Summary and Evaluation", in Theories of Social Inequality. 3rd ed. 1996.

A selection will be made from the following readings:

Class and Gender
• Carl Cuneo, "Patriarchy", Pp. 196-203 in Cuneo, Pay Equity: The Labour-Feminist Challenge. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Margrit Eichler, "The Double Standard in the Social Structure: The Inadequacy of Class Analysis", Chapter 4 (pp. 91-117) in M. Eichler, The Double Standard, London: Croon Helm, 1980.
• Joan Acker, "Class, Gender, and the Relations of Distribution", Signs, 13 (3), 1988, pp. 473-497.
• Rosemary Crompton, "Class Theory and Gender", British Journal of Sociology, 40 (4), 1989, pp. 565-587.

Class and Race
• Robert Miles, "Class, Race and Ethnicity: A Critique of Cox's Theory", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 3 (2), April, 1980, pp. 169-187.
• Robert Miles, "Recent Marxist Theories of Nationalism and the Issue of Racism", British Journal of Sociology, XXXVIII (1), 1987, pp. 24-43.
• Mike Cole, " 'Race' and 'Class' or 'Race', Class, Gender and Community? A Critical Appraisal of the Radicalized Fraction of the Working-Class Thesis", British Journal of Sociology 40 (1), 1989, pp. 118-129.

Class, Gender, and Race
• Ann Ferguson, "The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class in the United States Today", Rethinking Marxism. 3 (3/4), Fall/Winter, 1990, 45-64.
• Tania Das Gupta, "Political Economy of Gender, Race, and Class: Looking at South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada", Canadian Ethnic Studies, XXVI (1), 1994, pp. 59-73.
• Alicja Muszynski, "Deconstructing the Categorical Reality of Race and Gender", Canadian Ethnic Studies, XXVI (3), 1994, pp. 4-17.
• Susan Ruddick, "Constructing Differences in Public Spaces: Race, Class, and Gender as Interlocking Systems", Urban Geography, 17 (2), 1996, pp. 132-151.