PSYC 4120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Open Society, Achieved Status
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Social stratification: division of people in strata, depends on the money you got. Status and system: moving between or within strata, open society, ascribed (born into it) vs. Social class in capitalist society: rossides (1997, upper, upper middle, lower middle, lower. Net $ highest 10% in 2007-165 000/year: avg. Net $ lowest 10% in 2007-9000/year: highest 20% in 2009, lowest 20% in 2009, gap growing larger (fraser, 2012) Income and social class: upper middle, ex. Doctors and lawyers etc: lower middle, ex. Nurses and teachers etc: working-class, generally involving manual labour, part time or contract, keep looking for full time job. Social mobility based on social class and job opportunity: opportunity to move from one position in a stratified system to another, vertical sm, horizontal sm. Intergenerational mobility: mobility between family of origin and own class, ex. Move from one ses to another like you dad was poor but you grow up rich.
