SOCY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ascribed Status, Social Inequality, False Consciousness
16 Apr 2019
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Stratification and social mobility in the united states. Systems of stratification: ascribed social status: is assigned to a person by society without regard for the person"s unique talents or characteristics - assigned at birth - biological in origin are. Significant because of the social meanings they have in society - can do. Racial background, gender, age: achieved status: comes largely though one"s own efforts. Ascribed status heavily influence one"s achieved status - you earn this status through. Your efforts: slavery: individuals owned by other people who treat them as property - closed system, castes: hereditary ranks usually religiously dictated and tend to be fixed and immobile - closed system. Based on religious beliefs: estate system (feudalism): required peasants to work land leased to them in exchange for military protection and other services - closed system. High-status groups own land and have power based on their noble birth.
