Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Glass Ceiling

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Scott Schaffer

Document Summary

Reading the question- take time to make sure you read the question correctly. The law of gravity has nothing to do with society or the social class- pay attention to guest speakers. Master categories- ways of seeing social organization in terms of socially valued criteria (ex. power, class, race, gender, nation) Understanding how statuses are granted and how it is that they are granted in some social association process is critical for understanding how society is organized and how peoples lives are impacted. Capacity to act to accomplish something (socially efficacious) In order to have the capacity you have to have the resources and ability (way of acting to reach an end) Institutions- yield pathways giving action, they also allocate resources. 1st dimension- if person one can get person two to do something then person one has power.