SOC 3118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Class, Social Stratification, Social Forces

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3118
• Professor: Chapman

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Quiz open questions, comprehension essay style. What structures impact your life course: healthcare. If (cid:455)ou"re u(cid:374)health(cid:455) (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)u(cid:272)h goi(cid:374)g for (cid:455)ou: family (but we let family impact us it"s a (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e, law. The field of life course studies has, at its core, two propositions: the life course is the product of social forces. Life, is largely what one makes of it: models of agency without structure, these models often downplay the effects of social forces and assume that good. What is structure: the concept of social structure is difficult to grasp and make precise. Conventional approaches treat structure as a powerful set of stable top-down forces that impinge upon individuals and cannot be easily altered. Sociologists of social stratification have emphasized the fact that the social structure of a society can be described through: age (or cohort, race (or ethnicity, sex (or gender, social class (education, occupation, income, or some combination thereof)