SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Heterosis, Incest Taboo, Common-Law Marriage
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If you are a peasant then you"ll remain a peasant & it doesn"t matter how much smart u are. Usually in modern societies we don"t count on somebody"s status but it"s ur performance as an individual. General trend of modern society is based on personal achievements. You can become successful in business (that"s an achieved status). Entertainment- rushed rock band (third best band) they achieved wht they had. An open and mobile society, u use achievement to evaluate pple. Modern societies are relatively open, traditional societies are relatively closed. Equality seems to be a great idea but unfortunately we won"t like if we are evaluated on the same level as high school diploma pple. Even socialist society has not achieved equality (they r not even close). & we try to put pple in classes. Ex 1500 pple can be put in following categories: 1--------5(lower class) 6 ---------15(working class) 16 -----------25(middle class) 26-------------30(upper class)
