SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Dependency Theory, Erik Olin Wright, Gerhard Lenski
4 Apr 2014
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Contradictory class location"- some occupational groups have divided loyalty. Ex: manager -> you have divided loyalty to owner of facility and some sympathy to the workers. Social groups maximize their own interests by restricting access to resources and opportunities. Two types of social closure: exclusion: effort by powerful groups to maintain their position (ex: lawyers) they want to keep their demand and income high, usurpation: effort by excluded groups to gain power. Group that have been excluded try to gain more power. Technological base of a society will determine the amount of inequality. Those with power can take over surpluses. He though as industrialization progressed, inequality might decline. Absolute poverty: so little income that survival is difficult. Relative poverty: significant less income than others. Low-income cutoff (lico):level of income at which more than 55% of income is spent on basic necessities (poverty line in canada)
