SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Snc-Lavalin, Blue-Collar Worker, Social Mobility
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Developed weber"s concept of social closure: and resources, and to exclude others from such access. Methods used by more powerful groups to maintain their unequal access to status. Ex: any other company that was in the position that snc lavalin was a couple years ago would have been pushed through and have to go to the board. Two types of closure strategies: maintain their advantageous positions. Exclusion: an organized effort of privileged and more powerful groups to. Usurpation: the effort of excluded groups; physical minorities, marginalized groups, and women, to gain advantages in power at the expense of the more powerful groups. Most prominent occupational shift over 20th century was decline in agricultural occupations. Shifting from subsistent earning to working in factories etc instead of growing what you eat. Also decline (albeit less) in other natural resource-based occupations (e. g. , forestry, fishing, mining) If we have decreases in these areas, we need to have increases in others.
