SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Consciousness Raising, Parochialism, Social Inequality
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Each test will have a mean of ~70% and an upper limit of ~100% Our personal experience tells us there are many natural inequalities between people: height must reach a certain height to be in mba basketball inborn differences; taller people seem to have more authority. Finally, sociologists are interested in how people invent or construct (unnatural) inequalities. The example of beauty: consider the performance of social inequalities in connection with physical beauty. To example the creation, performance, and preservation of social inequalities, we need to develop some concepts. All societies display social inequality of varying kinds for example, class inequality, gender inequality, age inequality, racial or ethic inequality. These social inequalities are socially constructed: that is, collectively imagined on the basis of a supposedly important natural difference (e. g. , sex, skin color) All types of social inequality have negative consequences for the people they disadvantage, and for society as a whole the most extreme forms of inequality produce.
