SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oscar Lewis, Delayed Gratification, Social Inequality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Dr. Lina Samuel

Document Summary

Intergenerational mobility:- the comparison of adult children"s social class to that of their parents. Intragenerational mobility:- status movement throughout one"s life: dimensions of social inequality: Income: wealth, power, occupational prestige, schooling, ancestry, race and ethnicity, gender. Social inequality: social inequality:- exists when certain attributes affect a person"s access to socially valued resources. Determine what people can wear, what jobs they can perform and who they can marry: membership hereditary (ex: india and japan, open system:- based on achieved status, result of one"s own merit within the class structure. Social inequality serves important social functions: instills desire to fill certain social positions, and instills the desire to complete duties and obligations: criticism: Substantial discrimination: market forces, extreme nature of social inequality (globally and locally, conflict theory: Social classes are a manifestation of competition/conflict between the haves and the have-nots: karl marx, believed that class struggle was the most important inspiration behind the historical transformation of societies.