ANT 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnocentrism, Social Stratification
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Social identity: social statuses are the categories of different kinds of people who interact, ex. College presidents" (a status) roles vary depending on the status of people with whom they interact. Their behavior towards student will differ from behavior towards trustees, but both behaviors are part of their role: social situations are the settings in which interaction takes place. They include culturally defined places, times, objects, and events: social stratification is any form of inequality characterized by regularly experienced unequal access to valued economic resources and/or prestige, ex. In class systems, social mobility is possible although usually difficult: ex. Harlem residents is an example of the treatment of lower class people by higher ranking individuals in service industries: caste is a system of stratification that ranks people on the basis of their birth. People are born into a caste system at birth and cannot move to a higher rank: ex.
