SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Social Inequality
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Differences in the access people have to valued resources, power, opportunities and prestige. Social inequality raises issues of fairness and allocation. Ex: we have taxes to distribute wealth. Sociologists have different ways of categorizing and understanding social inequality: Ways of thinking about inequality weber ~ distribution of power: 3 different ways power and influence are distributed in society. Economic life chances in a marketplace in relation to others. Defined by ownership of the means of production and skills that give you. People look at them in society and give them respect. Status and class often go together but they do not always. Ex: religious leader. (high status but don"t make a lot of economic income) Ex: old money vs. new money (low status but high income) Form groups around a common interest or goal to gain power. Ways of thinking about social inequality ~ bourdieu: forms of capital:
