SYG-2010 Lecture 6: stratufucation
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Because social values and policies vary by time and place (across societies: strati cation is the product of two social processes: Di erentiation: the social construction of group di erences for example by: gender - male/female, age - young/middle aged/old, race/ethinicity - black, white, etc, class - lower, working, middle, higher. Rules by which the economy is organized - the way the economy works . What kinds of economic infrastructures exist (ex. , private banks, a federal reserve. The economic system is made up of regular enduring ordered patterns of sisal relationships that are created through policy nit by some abstract pre-determined force: the economy has a particular social structure. People create structures - including economic institutions - through political action but structures also constrain people: the economy has a particular social structure. The structure of the economy a ects how strati ed it is: politics:
