APA 1302 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - Sociology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 1302
• Professor: Michael Robidoux

Document Summary

Social class: refers to categories of people who share a similar economic position in society based on a combination of their: Social strati cation: refers to structured forms of economic inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday life; these inequalities in uence life chances. ** life chances(i. e. opportunities to achieve economic success and gain economic power) vary from one social class to another in the social strati cation system. Meritocracy is a hierarchical ranking and reward system in which an individual"s demonstrated performance determines where s/he will be situated in the existing hierarchy. Merit based system that rewards individuals for their achievements within the system. The idea of equality opportunity and equality of conditions. Equality opportunity simply means each person has the same opportunity to participate; it just equally be available for everyone. Equality of condition means that everyone participates under the same conditions.