SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Open Society, Social Inequality, Meritocracy

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Jayne Baker

Document Summary

35 questions: textbook only: 11/35, lecture only: 5/35, textbook/lecture overlap: 19/35. Topics: socialization, interaction, crime and deviance, stratification. Opportunity to think about subtle things a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) the(cid:455)(cid:859)(cid:396)e shaped (cid:271)(cid:455) so(cid:272)io e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) status. Our choices are constrained by socioeconomic status: largely earned from the generation before us and tends to be passed down from generation to generation. Stratification: (cid:862)the (cid:449)a(cid:455) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) is o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)ized i(cid:374) la(cid:455)e(cid:396)s o(cid:396) st(cid:396)ata. (cid:863) (b(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:373) a(cid:374)d lie (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)5:(cid:1005)(cid:1005)8. Stratificatio(cid:374): (cid:862)a so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)(cid:859)s hie(cid:396)a(cid:396)(cid:272)hi(cid:272)al (cid:396)a(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g of people i(cid:374)to so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)lasses. (cid:863: simply the idea that people are on different rungs of a latter. Idea of people being ranked according to socioeconomic status. Mainly about socioeconomic status (ses) and social class. Ses preferred because people assume class is just about the amount of money you make: composite measure which brings together multiple indicators that shape the rung of the ladder you are on.