Sociology 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Visible Minority, Economic Security

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2202
• Professor: Stephen Lin

Document Summary

Multi-level, macro-meso-micro model highlights significance of : structured social relations (inequality) at the macro level for, gender, age, race, class, arrangement in social institutions at the meso level and, employers, individual lives at the micro level. Gender, ethnicity & race = 3 significant structured social relations. Current social arrangements (macro-meso) advantage some, disadvantage others: meso level we build in our structured social relations. Structured social relations: gender, age, class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, characterized by power differences, interconnected, our lives are the combination of the different positions we hold. When reading chapters on gender and ethnicity consider how structured social relations (macro) relation to social institutional arrangements (family, work, healthcare); (meso) and on individuals lives (micro) Concretely: individuals experience advantages and disadvantages on positions in structured social relations. Heterogeneity among old (and other age groups) If different life expectancy based on socially created differences (wealth, access to education & labour market)