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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CSI Faculty Affiliate, Peter K. Enns, of the Department of Government, has published Who Gets Represented? (2011, Russell Sage Foundation). The book is a collection of papers from a mini-conference supported by CSI, focusing on the usual assumption that the preferences of any one group (women, African Americans, the middle class, for example) are incompatible with the preferences of other groups. Taking unequal representation as a given, the book analyzes differences across income, education, racial, and partisan groups and investigates whether and how differences in group opinion matter with regard to political representation.
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The CSI Inequality Quiz is 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.)
Profiles of Alumni
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 Fall 2012 inequality-related courses that satisfy the minor's electives requirement.
This course is the primary requirement for completion of the Minor in Inequality Studies. It will be offered in the fall of 2011.
Since the program's inception in 2003, more than 320 undergraduates from five of Cornell's colleges have earned the Minor in Inequality Studies. Another 60 students are currently enrolled as minors.
