LGLS 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Stratification, Endogamy, Social Inequality
8 Mar 2020
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Social inequality: the unusual distribution of valued resources, rewards, and positions in a society; a key concept here is social differentiation (social characteristics used to differentiate people and divide them into different categories that could lead to social inequality) Social stratification: an institutionalized system of social inequality (a situation where divisions and relationships of social inequality have solidified into a system that determines who gets what, when, and why) When you think stratification, think geology and how horizontal layers in rock are called strata". The people with the most resources are the top layer of the social stratification and those with fewer resources become the lower layers. Stratification is not about individual inequalities, but about systematic inequalities based on group membership, classes, etc. Factors that define stratification are as follows: wealth: the net value of money and assets a person has, power: how many people a person must take orders from vs. how many.
