SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Economic Inequality, White Supremacy, Caste System In India
10 Aug 2016
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Social inequality when attributes (gender, minority status, class) affect a person"s access to socially valued resources (money, status, education, health care) Social stratification system by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy: an institutionalized and structured form of inequality in which categories of people are: Ranked in a graded hierarchy of superior and inferior ranks. These rankings are based on arbitrary criteria. These criteria sere to create unequal access to rewards, resources, privileges and life chances in a society. Canada: all systems of stratification are accompanied by a prevailing ideology. Meritocracy: a system of rewards based on personal attributes and demonstrated abilities, a myth that democratic choice is equally available to all, it contributes to people blaming the victim. Closed systems allow for little change in social position; a social system in which status is based on characteristics ascribed at birth.
