Social Mobility and Inequality Upper Bound – The Economist, April 15, 2010
 http://www.economist.com/node/15908469 
Goodbye, Horatio Alger – The Nation, January 21 https://www.thenation.com/article/goodbye-horatio-alger/ 2007 The Downward Path of Upward Mobility – Washington Post, November 9, 2011
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-downward-path-of-upward-mobility/2011/11/09/gIQAegpS6M_story.html?utm_term=.8878160ebbd1 Hardest American to rise from Lower Rungs, January 4, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to-rise-from-lower-rungs.html?hp=&pagewanted=all&_r=0 2) Using information from all 4 articles, write a 4-5 page paper addressing the following questions: 1. According to the authors, mobility in […]

BOOK NAME: redefining realness BY: Janet Mock a) Where and when does/did the individual live? b) How does/did the individual identify in terms of gender (e.g. transgender, FtM/MtF, cross dresser, gender queer, transsexual, non-binary, gender fluid) and did that identity change over time? c) Is the memoir purely retrospective (i.e. from memory) or does it contain contemporary sources (e.g. journal entries, letters, e-mails)? d) Does the individual specify any particular […]

SLO 1: Each student will explain what sociologist C. Wright Mills referred to as the sociological imagination, which is the ability to understand the many ways that social forces influence personal outcomes. SLO 2: Each student explains how social class affects individual life chances.

Full-title of the assignment: “The system of industrial relations has developed from one based on state – labour relations to one based on employer – labour relations” Discuss. Marks will be based on evidence of reading, strength of argument and correct referencing and citation. To this end, it is expected to be from the 18 readings attached apart from the Taylor et al. (2003) book, at least 10 references are […]