SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Mobility, Meritocracy, Krahn People
16 Mar 2018
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Social inequality: resources (economic, social and political) are unequally distributed in society, this unequal distribution endures and changes over time. Social stratification: historically enduring patterns/layers of inequality or, institutionalized system of social inequality. Stratification categories through which a society is divided and ranked: wealth net worth. Real estate accounts for 49% of canadians net worth. Closed systems little or (cid:374)o (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t bet(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:858)layers(cid:859) /strata: accommodate little change in social position. They do not allow people to shift levels and do not permit social relations between levels. Open systems movement up and down layers/strata: based on achievement, allow movement and interaction between layers and classes. Social mobility - the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to others" social location within a given society: changing positions/strata within a stratification system.
