SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Stratification
6 Jan 2020
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Social stratification: the ways in which individuals and groups are ranked in society, reflecting different amounts of power, status and prestige. Statuses like social class, race or ethnicity, gender, age and sexual orientation. Impacts access to material goods as well as knowledge/connections. 1st premises: stratification in who we interact with. Stratification works to constrain who we come in contact with and then influences shape of those interactions and in turn influences outcomes. Ethnography of kids living in a predominantly white vs black working class town. Language and story telling used differently among parents and children. 2nd premises: the role of status during interactions. Focus on the inequalities that exist when people come together in interaction with each other. People in lower status positions may need to take on the role of the other more often than their more powerful counterparts. Found that hotel workers would frame class relations during interactions with.
