SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Business Cycle, Meritocracy, Hegemonic Masculinity
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Lecture 7 - moving up - education and mobility. Social mobility: movement of people up and down in a stratified system: across different stratified systems o. Caste system -- difficult to move up and down -- closed system; slavery -- doesn"t allow for movement unless the group emancipates. Social reproduction: tendency for people to remain in their social classes (remember our discussion on bourdieu?) Circular mobility: the circular movement of people (up down and up again: occupational hierarchy o. If a manager is moved down, someone else moved up. Reproductive mobility: those at the bottom have more children than those at the top o. In a lower class family -- 1 of 6 kids move up -- those at the bottom stay at the bottom. Immigration mobility: read the example by sernau (2014: 212) on immigrants and immigrant tensions b/w long standing groups and newer immigrants group in miami.
