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This course combines approached from social psychology and social history to examine stratification and conflict within and between groups. Challenging the assumption of rationality in human behavior, it explores the role of drives, cognitive biases, culture, religion, beliefs and identity systems in social phenomena. After a theoretical overview, it looks specifically at the evolution of identity systems and the manifestation of identity-based conflict during the period of modernization and globalization, and explains xenophobic responses to the emergence of a global, modern identity. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>