SOC100 Lecture 23: Chapter 5
18 Nov 2015
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Overview: social inequality and stratification, closed systems and stratification, social mobility, wealth, poverty, theories of social class. Family incomes (more than one income combined; not individual income: upper middle class (cid:224) ,201 ,000, middle class (cid:224) ,601 (cid:224) ,200, lower middle class (cid:224) ,101 (cid:224) ,600, median family income (cid:224) ,240. 00 are earning more, shrinking middle class. You couldn"t afford something if it wasn"t produced from people who accept low wages in order to create those products: you need people to earn less, assumes people can advance in the socio economic system based on experience, skills, and education meritocracy. Marx (cid:224) private ownership of property and surplus create alienation: was against commodification of labor, the only value you have for society is how hard you can work for someone else and then they will pay you some type of wage, selling yourself to society.
