Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Human Capital, Individualism, Social Mobility
22 Apr 2017
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Social mobility is a change in a person"s position in a hierarchy. Is universal, but variable regarding amount and type of inequality. Integrational mobility: change in social position during one person"s lifetime. Intergenerational mobility: upward or downward movement that takes place across generations within a family. Conflict theory: stratification and conflict: social reproduction: born into a class = die in class, marx was concerned with poverty amid riches, capitalists own and operate businesses, proletariat sell labor for wages. Social reproduction: capitalist society reproduces class structure in each new generation, private property: the basis of the division of society into classes, economy: basis of class systems. Income: indicator of success, wealth, power, and standard of living. Who earns what: to measure income inequality divide population into 5 equal groups quintiles . What class are you (parents): quintile 1 lowest, quintile 2 second, quintile 3 middle, quintile 3 fourth, quintile 5 highest.
