CGS SS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Stratification
30 Oct 2018
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Social stratification is the measure of inequalities within a society. No society in history, even less complex ones, has ever been an equal society. Social stratification has become more complicated as societies progressed. Human evolution & gender: division of labor, men wound up with responsibility of protecting the group/hunting. Deep history & (cid:862)race(cid:863: deep history, dna research has allowed us to come up with a broad general pattern of prehistoric humans. Studying this is the origins of evolutionary people. This meant they could settle in places far from other people. Isolation is the reason why there are genetic differences in people around the world: genetic drift: genetic changes that evolved within isolated groups, some seen as attractive. Some features had advantages in different places (i. e. straight hair retains heat better: race, darker skin means less vitamin d absorption and their hair maintains itself easier in humanities, whiter skin means more vitamin d can be absorbed.
