A general survey of theories of stratification and inequality, with a focus on societies in the Global South and Arab societies. Determinants and indicators of inequality and its extent. The relation between social inequality and ethnicity, gender, and region. The effect of inequality as manifested in life chances and lifestyles, segregation, discrimination, and conflict. Class consciousness and its relation to other forms of consciousness such as ethnic and national consciousness. The determinants of social mobility. Issues of socio-economic hierarchies and the production and reproduction of social difference related to class, forms of capital, power, knowledge and distinction.
