SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Jim Crow Laws, Ascribed Status, Social Inequality

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Rubin

Document Summary

Definition: system through which individuals are grouped into categories, or strata, according to their social status. Strata: categories of people who are similar. Achieved characteristics acquire with age and experience. Social status: position in society that is located in a particular social institution and associated with certain roles. Stratification system: definition: relatively fixed, hierarchical arrangement in which groups have different access to resources, power, and perceived self worth, a system of structured inequality. Estate systems: ownership of property and exercise of power is monopolized by an elite group. Caste systems: location in the stratification system is determined by an ascribed status (what you are born into, rigid hierarchy of classes very clear delineation between classes, formal law and culture practice prevent movement between classes. India, south african apartheid, southern u. s. jim crow laws. Structural position groups hold relative to the resources of economy, such as: Political (ability to participate in political process, actually have power)