SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Social Stratification, Social Inequality, Ascribed Status
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Our social standing is largely a consequence of the way in which a society structures opportunities and rewards. To the core of our being we are all products of social stratification. Persistent patterns of social inequality within a society. Persistent patterns of unequal distribution of scarce resources (access to wealth, status, power and services) A system by which society ranks categories of people. Involves not just inequalities, but beliefs these inequalities are valid. Caste (closed stratification) system: ascribed status dominates, movement difficult. Class (open stratification) system: achieved status dominates, movement easier. Intergenerational social standing of children in relation to parents. Intragenerational change in one"s social position in one"s lifetime. Suggest some of the ways an individual"s position in contemporary canadian stratification system affects that person"s life. Outline the principle ideology being currently used to justify the canadian system of structured social inequality.
