SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Stratification, Rigging, Status Attainment

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 273
• Professor: Lisa Carver

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Mon march 20th quiz in lecture (monday) Social stratification: the way in which individuals are ranked in society, reflecting different amounts of power status and prestige: important statuses, class, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation. Sociological social psychology emphasizes stratification to a much greater degree than psychology. Symbolic interactionist are concerned with how we create and maintain definitions of different classes of people. Social structure and personality scholars focus on how structural conditions often relate to work education or family settings. Interactionist perspective: studies stratification processes of developing and maintaining differences within and among groups of people. Othering: people separated into us and them; self and other: higher status individuals create definitions about themselves and the other. Lower status groups are flawed therefore okay to treat them differently. Bottom up othering (defensive othering): responding to oppressive definitions imposed but the higher-status group: other themselves, separating themselves from a peer group stereotype, provides self-dignity but perpetuates the dominant stereotype as true.