SOC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Inequality, Patricia Hill Collins
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Social differentiation: categorizing by some personal attribute, not ranked(seating by hometown) Social strati cation: ranking in hierarchy, superior or inferior, refers to structured social inequality: deals with inequalities bedded within social interactions. Difference between social differentiation and social strati cation is ranking. Four basic principles of ss: ss is a trait of society, not simply a re ection of individual differences, tied to privilege. Life chances: chances(throughout one"s life) to experience the good things (of life: ss persists over generations, parents pass position on to children. Social mobility: change in one"s position in the social hierarchy. The family you"re born into doesn"t determine who you are and your capability. Tend to end up where we start out: ss is universal but variable, it"s everywhere, what and how much vary, caste vs. class system. Caste system- people are ranked based on their spiritual wholeness, creates what you do for a living, who you"ll marry, etc.
