SOCIOL 239ASocial Stratification, Mobility, and Inequality
Sociology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Course 239A is enforced requisite to 239B. Introduction to literature on social stratification, mobility, and inequality in U.S. and abroad, with focus on concepts, data, methods, and facts about occupational and class structure; intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status; effects of family, school, and labor market on socioeconomic achievement, careers, and inequality; earnings, income, and wealth distribution; poverty; social mobility; socioeconomic factors and marriage; gender and ethnic stratification; and health disparities.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 210A, 210B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
SOCIOL 239A
- SOCIOL 210AIntermediate Statistical Methods I
- SOCIOL 210BIntermediate Statistical Methods II
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
SOCIOL 239A
- SOCIOL 239BSocial Stratification, Mobility, and Inequality
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.