The Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) fosters basic and applied
research on social and economic inequalities, as well as the processes by which
such inequalities change and persist.
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EVENTS
Friday, September 26
Colloquium Series
302 Uris Hall
3:00pm - 4:30pm
"Compensation Benchmarking and the Surge in Executive Pay"
Thomas DiPrete
Professor of Sociology
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality
Columbia University
Friday, October 10
Colloquium Series
302 Uris Hall
3:00pm - 4:30pm
"Educational Assortative Marriage and Earnings Inequality"
Richard Breen
Professor of Sociology
Co-Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course
Yale University
Friday, October 24
Colloquium Series
302 Uris Hall
3:00pm - 4:30pm
"Is a college degree still the great equalizer? Intergenerational mobility across levels of schooling in the US"
Florencia Torche
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
New York University
Wednesday, March 25
2:55pm - 4:10pm
Mitchell Stevens
Associate Professor, School of Education
Stanford University
Friday, March 27
Colloquium Series
302 Uris Hall
3:00pm - 4:30pm
"Analytical Sociology: Principles and Applications"
Peter Hedström
Professor and Official Fellow, Sociology
Nuffield College, Oxford University
Co-Sponsored event with the
Institute of European Studies
Monday, March 30
115 Ives Hall
4:15pm - 5:45pm
Wojciech Kopczuk
Associate Professor, Economics
Columbia University
Co-Sponsored event with Public Economics
Monday, April 13
2:55pm - 4:10pm
Peter Moskos
Assistant Professor, Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
2009-2010
April 1, 2010
William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Sociology
Harvard University
Co-Sponsored event with the
Institute for the Social Sciences
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NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS
The CSI Inequality Quiz has been updated with 12 new questions that are designed to reveal your IQ (Inequality Quotient). Because this IQ is an acquired not innate capacity, students scoring below 100% can expect substantial gains by completing the Inequality Minor. (Between 2001 and the summer of 2008, the prior version of the CSI Inequality Quiz was taken more than 10,000 times. Click here to see the questions, correct answers, and distributions of responses across each of the questions.)
ISS 2008-2011 Theme Project
CSI Faculty Affiliate Christopher Barrett will lead
Persistent Poverty and Upward Mobility, the 2008-2011 Theme Project at Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences. He will be joined by CSI Director Stephen L. Morgan as a core team member, along with faculty affiliates Christopher J. Anderson (Government), Susan Christopherson (City & Regional Planning), Matthew Freedman (ILR Labor Economics), Daniel T. Lichter ( Policy Analysis & Management and Sociology), Jordan Masudaira (Policy Analysis and Management), Christine Olson (Nutrition Sciences), David Sahn (Nutritional Sciences/Economics), and Nic van de Walle (Government).
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From Stanford University Press
Published in 2006, this volume compiles and extends papers presented at the conference
"Frontiers in Socioeconomic Mobility: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
Conference," hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality in
collaboration with the Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative at
Cornell University.
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Published in 2006, this volume compiles and extends papers presented at the
"Symposium on Conceptual Challenges in Poverty and Inequality,"
hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality in collaboration with
the Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative at Cornell University.
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MINOR IN INEQUALITY STUDIES
Profiles of Alumni and
Current Minors
The Minor in Inequality Studies
is an interdisciplinary program that may be completed with a major. If you're a Cornell undergraduate interested in
government service, policy work, or related jobs in nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), or want to go on to graduate work in anthropology,
economics, government, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public
policy, or sociology, the Minor in Inequality Studies may be just what you need.
Obtain your
enrollment form
for the Minor in Inequality Studies online.
Click here
to see a list of spring 2009 inequality-related courses that satisfy the minor's electives requirement.
Core Course 2008-2009:
SOC 2220 Controversies About Inequality
This course is the primary requirement for completion of the Minor in Inequality
Studies. It will be offered in the spring of 2009.
Overview Courses:
Income Distribution (ILRLE 4410)
Inequality, Diversity, and Justice (PHIL 1930, CRP 2930, GOVT 2935, and SOC 2930)
Comparative Social Stratification (D SOC 3700 and SOC 3710)
Social Inequality (SOC 2208 and D SOC 2090)
Organizations and Social Inequality (ILROB 6260)
Racial and Ethnic Differentiation (PAM 3370 and SOC 3370)
Since the program's inception in 2003, more than 180 undergraduates from five of Cornell's colleges have earned the Minor in Inequality Studies. Another 133 students are currently enrolled as minors.
How much do you know about inequality?
Take our interactive quiz
to determine your "IQ" (Inequality Quotient).
