SOCY1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Counterpoint, Meritocracy, Research Question
12 Sep 2016
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Discussion of the readings: ease of privilege and the new elite : related the reading back to bourdieu and cultural capital that being education! Most sociologists since wwii end up studying economic inequality from the perspective of the disadvantaged. As sociologists we typically look at the disadvantaged and their constraints (i. e. social mobility, etc. ), so that we can figure out the causes to possibly the change: distance of inequality has increased since the 1960s because those who are more wealthy have become even more wealthy. A: top 10% of american wage earners, increased annual earnings by. 67: top 1% by 325, top. 1% by 500, shamnus recognizes a community to which he had access to make a statement about the subconscious conditions about the myth of meritocracy to which affluent are living under right now. History of private schooling: st. paul"s emerged as counterpoint to andover and exeter.
