SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Iqvia, Social Inequality, Social Class
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Stratification lecture note part 1 - feb 11, 2016. Choice we make, are very constrained by social class, by our family"s class background. All choices are different depends on the social class background. Class background act a legacy; which social class passes on generation to generation. Stratification: the way society is organized in layers or strata . A society"s hierarchical ranking of people into social classes . How is the rank affect people"s lives (ex. In our society, people have different rungs, some have lower rung, some have higher. Stratification is a type of ladder/hierarchy level, and social inequality depends on where you are on the ladder, your position on the ladder. How and where you are on the ladder, how it effects your life. (your education, work, friends) Most of people think of class as money/income. Ses: socioeconomic status/social class (common term for sociologists) Lawyer (makes a lot of money) doesn"t equal.
