SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ascribed Status, Meritocracy
14 Oct 2016
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The idea the hard work has gotten us where we are. Getting ahead is based on individual merit, which is generally viewed as a combination of factors including innate abilities, working hard, having the right attitude, and having high moral character and integrity. But this may not be true because it is lucky that we live in canada and we are more privileged than people in africa. Ascribed statuses play a large role in the opportunities and barriers that. Myth of meritocracy: people face (the deck is stacked) Many factors that impact on a person(cid:495)s ability to succeed. They are structural, not individual: wealth, race, gender. The way in which society is organized into predictable relationships, patterns of social interaction: ex. Social structure shapes the distribution of inequality. Hierarchy of large social groups: the division of groups on a hierarchy largely influenced by money. Influences of inequality: who gets what, how they get it, why they get it? person/groups.
