Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Statistical Dispersion, Rationality

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1025A/B
• Professor: Lauren Barr

Document Summary

Take something and bring it to life: personification. We create the structure: there are people behind the structure, imagine if sociologists took what we know and used it to influence the problems we have does it have to be that way? can we change it? . For example, language and how we become prisoners of our own cages. Why inequality? to track where we came from, why we get to where we are at right now, and how to change it (we are change-oriented people). For example: controlling knowledge now we need to be able to use that knowledge and on the edge of knowledge. For example: plagiarism: the line between of having credentials and profitable value control the access to knowledge. Politics: the power to decide what is right and wrong, what worth knowing, what is put inside the textbook and so forth . We think of it as finite resources,