Sociology 125. Contemporary American Society

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Prologue: Perspectives and Values

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What kind of a country is this?

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The market: how it is supposed to work

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The market: How it actually works

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The market: How it actually works

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The environment

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Transportation

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Consumerism

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Health Care

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Finance             READINGS

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High Road Capitalism

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Thinking about Fairness and Inequality

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Class

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Persistent poverty and Rising Inequality

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Ending Poverty in America

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Racial Inequality

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Racial Inequality

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Gender inequality

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Gender Inequality

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Democracy : how it works

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Elections and voting

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Taxation and the Attack on the Affirmative State

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Corporate Control of the Media

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Militarism and Empire

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Labor Unions

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Democracy from below

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Conclusion: Possible Futures

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