SOCI 1P80 Lecture Notes - Sweatshop, Dependency Theory, Social Stratification
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Contacts with people of similar backgrounds, interests, and goals all the elite to pass privileges from one generation to the next. The consequences of social class: life chances, physical and mental health, family life, political participation and affiliation, education, treatment by the criminal justice system, the hidden injuries of class. Global stratification: high income countries (most industrialized nations, middle income countries (industrializing nations, low income countries (the least industrialized nations, modernization theory, dependency theory. In every society in the world, gender is a basis for social stratification. While it is not the sole basis for stratifying people, it cuts across all systems of stratification. In every society in the world, men"s earnings and higher than women"s. Women are vastly underrepresented in positions of political and economic power. Of the 885 million adults who are illiterate, two-thirds are women. Two-thirds of the 13 million school-age children who receive no education are girls.