SOC100H5 Lecture 10: Stratification I
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Soc100 lecture 10 stratification: hierarchal ranking of people into classes, rich or poor, powerful-powerless, high or less educated, examine shape of inequality, mobility, variability over time and micro interaction. Perceptions of poverty: inequality is needed to motivate people, inequality benefits the rich and powerful, the government should not provide jobs or basic income. Mobility: ascribed; caste system or achieved status; improving oneself, position vs merit, class reproduction, education, the odds are you will perhaps stay in the class" you are born. Functionalism: we pay people more in some jobs than other jobs, because some jobs are more important than others**, we do not often reward jobs based on social importance (e. g. , pro athletes) Conflict: bourgeoisie; owners and proletariat; manual laborers, marx theory. Modernization theory: according to this theory many countries are poor because they do not adopt western style modernization, more like functionalism theory.
