SA 100W Lecture 5: Social Inequality

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 100W
• Professor: Karl Froschauer

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Pay attention to bolded headings and italicized words. Review class notes, tutorial notes, and textbook. Test format: 30 minutes for each question, two questions (total 60 minutes) Inequality an imposed social arrangement: within work, schools, institutions. Rich earned rewards for they contribute more. Rich take advantage: ex. of people, arrogance. Social inequality is inevitable feature of society. Inequality is required for survival of society. Argument: society compared to organisms; organismic; provides needs like edu. , health, economic, and political system, needs and task assignment; to meet all the needs of social systems, people must be assigned certain tasks and tasks vary. Ranking of people: by continuum and strata (subdivide people into strata, income, quintile. [percentages], edu. , or occupation: occupations" values determined by its importance to society. Conclusion: f. s. argues that inequality is inevitable. Gabb: develops from diff. b/w people who have consequences differences = social inequality: race, gender, mental/physical attributes or disabilities, religion, etc.