SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Utopia, Christopher Jencks, Justice As Fairness
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Quizzes based on how closely you"ve assimilated yourself in the readings and the lecture content. Tutorials 4 times in the semester check portal. The quality of being unequal or uneven. Social inequality is about hierarchal (i. e. , better-worse) differences between any 2 people (or groups) Sociology is dedicated to explaining how social inequality works and the reasons most people are at the disadvantage. It also means showing social inequality leads to crime, sickness, addiction, violence. Tallness lack of tallness (being short) may be a result of poor nutrition when you grew up. All societies display social inequalities of various kinds class differentiation. Socially constructed: collectively imagined on the basis of a supposed important natural difference (ex. sex, skin colour: there is a cultural mythology behind the inequality. What it means to be a man vs. woman; black vs. white. There is a struggle to make meaning of the inequality different societies have different accounts the accounts are dynamic, changing.
