1. Societal Segmentation & Linguistic Variation: Class and Race
Chapter 6
Review: My Fair Lady & Article

2. Social Stratification
Definition
Is social stratification a human inequality?
Caste
Class
Class and Network
Def: the hierarchical structuring of groups within a society, reflecting inequalities among sectors of a population. Inequalities may be based on many factos, including income, occupation, education, and access to social, economic and/or political power.
These factors interact in complex ways to procude and reproduce societal segmentation.

3. Case Studies New York City Norwich, England Paris and Rouen, France
Maaseik, Belgium
Southern English, U.S.A.
Creole, Haiti & Afro-Caribbean Speakers in Great Britain
Ebonics, U.S.A.

4. Race African-American English in the United States
The Structure of African-American Vernacular English
The Ebonics Controversy