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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. Learn more about our mission...

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2008-2009 EVENTS

Friday, October 10


Colloquium Series
302 Uris Hall
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Richard Breen
Professor of Sociology
Co-Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course

Friday, October 24

Colloquium Series
302 Uris Hall
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Florencia Torche
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
New York University

Spring 2009

Katherine S. Newman
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Princeton University

CO-SPONSORED EVENTS

October 3-5

Conference on Inequality and Voting: Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Opinion

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NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS

NEW! 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 Jordan Masudaira (Policy Analysis and Management) and Christine Olson (Nutrition Sciences).

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Cornell Journal of Inequality Studies

The Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) proudly sponsors the Cornell Journal of Inequality Studies (CJIS) by annually awarding a $500 "Center for the Study of Inequality Undergraduate Research Prize" to the Cornell undergraduate who writes the best article published in CJIS. The selection committee, comprised of CSI faculty affiliates, will review all Cornell undergraduate works published in CJIS to determine each year's recipient. In addition to receiving the $500 prize, each recipient will be recognized in a future issue of CJIS.

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From Stanford University Press

Cover of Mobility and Inequality 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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Cover of Poverty and Inequality 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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From the Russell Sage Foundation

Cover of Declining Significance of Gender Editors Francine Blau, Mary Brinton, and David Grusky bring together top gender scholars in sociology and economics to make sense of the recent changes in gender inequality, and to judge whether the optimistic or pessimistic view better depicts the prospects and bottlenecks that lie ahead.

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INEQUALITY CONCENTRATION

NEW! Profiles of Alumni and Current Concentrators

The Undergraduate Concentration is not a major but rather an interdisciplinary program that you can complete along 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 Inequality Concentration may be just what you need. Obtain your enrollment form for the Inequality Concentration online. Click here to see a list of fall 2008 inequality-related courses that satisfy the concentration's electives requirement.

Core Course 2008-2009:

SOC 222 Controversies About Inequality

This course is the primary requirement for completion of the Inequality Concentration. It will be offered in the spring of 2009.

Overview Courses:

  • Income Distribution (ILRLE 441)
  • Inequality, Diversity, and Justice (PHIL 193, CRP 293, GOVT 293, and SOC 293)
  • Power and Poverty in America (GOVT 310)
  • Comparative Social Stratification (D SOC 370 and SOC 371)
  • Social Inequality (SOC 208 and D SOC 209)
  • Organizations and Social Inequality (ILROB 626)
  • Racial and Ethnic Differentiation (PAM 337 and PAM 337)

    QUICK FACTS

    Since the program's inception in 2003, over 149 undergraduates from five of Cornell's colleges have earned the Inequality Concentration. Another 104 students are currently enrolled as concentrators.


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