CGS SS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Achieved Status, Social Inequality, International Inequality
6 Apr 2016
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Looking at layers of (ranked) groups in society based on access to power, wealth, and education. Hierarchically organized structures of social inequality that exist in any society : another way to think about class. The way a given society is organized according to differing access to social rewards : financial, cultural, occupational, etc, who we are surrounded by, influenced by our physical location. Exists in every society earliest societies defined by gender and age. Depending on where you live, you are more aware of if people have same opportunity (city vs. suburban vs. rural) Own personal experience does not accurately describe society as a whole. Designed and administered a survey between 8/1896 and 1/1898. Personally did house to house canvassing of 7th ward. 7th ward had 20% of negro population of philadelphia: negro population. Census data, reported earnings, personal data, unemployment rates, bankruptcy filings, education levels, occupational pay and prestige rankings, opinion polls, surveys.
