Discuss social stratification and inequality

In this essay, students will discuss social stratification and inequality as they relate to a topic of interest, such as the family, deviance, crime, race/ethnicity or gender. In their essay, students must address a set of questions related to citizenship, social justice, and ecology (related to social responsibility). These include: What role to people play – through their actions and inactions – in generating and maintaining systems of stratification and inequality in society (concept from rubric: citizenship)? What issues of fairness are raised by stratification and inequality with respect to the selected topic (concept from rubric: social justice)? How might it be possible to overcome inequality in the selected topic (concept from rubric: ecology)?