SOCA01H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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In our world there are about 4000 distinct unique occupations: some give more prestige than others, some relationships(inequality) are established historically. If postal workers start making more money, then teachers would pressure school boards to increase their salaries. To establish the historical relationships, postal workers should be lower than teachers: people who work in a given occupation will use the legitimacy argument, i make more money than you do because it is justified. I have more training education and skills than you do www. notesolution. com: explanations of income inequality, factors in economic success. Inequality is inevitable : no society can exist without a political system, social survival, political system is made up of coordination and decision making. Inequality of power: you have this once you set up this political system, leaders have more power than followers. Lord acton: power corrupts, absolute powers corrupts absolutely www. notesolution. com: self-interest- human nature is self serving- inclined to say me first.
