SOC 103 Lecture 4: SOC 103- Week 4 notes
13 Feb 2017
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Soc 103 week 4: social class and inequality. Class: inequality among groups of people based on the distribution of material resources and social capital. False conscious: the general idea that people can be members of the working class without being aware that they are. Classism: a(cid:374) ideology that suggests that people"s relati(cid:448)e (cid:449)orth is at least partially determined by their social and economic status; judging one by their social class. Meritocracy: a system based on the principle that people achieve what they deserve. (cid:862)middle class bias(cid:863): no o(cid:374)e (cid:449)a(cid:374)ts to (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e they are (cid:862)(cid:271)arely s(cid:272)rapi(cid:374)g (cid:271)y(cid:863), yet they are (cid:374)ot at the top either. Social structures: how society is organized according to patterns of deeply held beliefs, of various roles and responsibilities of its members, and of sets of social behaviors. Social identity refers to how we interact with social structures. Social identities are both created by us and for us.
