SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toronto Subway, The Communist Manifesto, Wage Labour
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Currently stocked with 1-fly toilet paper, and only administration supplied with 2-fly. Ryerson making status distinction between students and faculty. Status not class: about honour, respect. Easy to see poverty and wealth, harder to see evidence of social classes". Greater incomes for people living along the toronto subway from 1970-2005. Class: 2+ social classes in any society, similarity within classes (in-marriage, differences between classes, less movement between classes than within (circulation through income levels of given class) Social classes have no easy-to-spot distinguishing features: gender groups distinguishing physiological features, racial groups/age groups distinguishing physical features, ethnic groups distinguishing cultural features. Class differentiation requires lot of cultural creativity: invention of culture of wealth , invention of culture of poverty . Awareness of class differences (class consciousness hard to establish and maintain: people learn class identities" and class distinctions", strategies of class resistance also hard to establish and maintain. Social hierarchies have formed on various cultural and economic bases.
