SOC 1200 Lecture 26: Social Inequality

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Mary- Anne Kandrack

Document Summary

Stratification: the structured inequality of entire categories of people who have different access to social rewards (scarce resources), as a result of their status in the social hierarchy. It is built into the structure of society: we"re born into a specific class location that comes from our parents. It"s not about choosing to adapt, it"s about being socialized into a class: ex. The elite idea of society compared to the lower class idea of society: the middle class has access to everything (education and health care) It is hard to alter or change one"s social class: ex. People on social assistance are given a certain amount of money to live. They end up having to take money out of their food money to pay for rent to have a place to live: generally, social mobility allows next generations to exceed previous generations.