SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - U.S. Route 400, Eye Color, Social Inequality
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Week 10 soca01 november 15, 2012. Study of social inequality: who gets what. Inequality is related to everything : small but consistent relationship. May ask : iq, self esteem, and etc. Differentiation (hair colour, eye colour, age, height, age & etc) vs evaluation: eye colour, hair colour may not be evaluated, but height is evaluated. Social stratification is the way valued resources wealth, power, prestige are distributed: and transmitted from one generation to the next. Much of his work is engaged in karl marx"s work. Weber is best known in the field not including marx. You either own the factory or you work in the factory. Wealth is what people have; land, castles, investments. Income is what we earn, most of us are a few pay checks away from poverty. Power: capacity to attain one"s goals despite opposition. Doesn"t necessarily depend on wealth, but one can attain wealth with power or power with wealth.
