SOCIOL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Economic Inequality, Sheryl Sandberg, Hanne Gaby Odiele
6 Mar 2018
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Systematic inequalities between groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processes and relationships. Positivist spin from society, studying layers of people, different types of people in society. A system of inequality that has become institutionalized. How good is inequality? rewards skills needed to reach a high position: functionalist theory: talents are spread out, normal distribution. How natural is inequality: video on monkeys, conflict sociology and stratification, inequality provokes tension and hostility, so we are not designed for this, stratification systems are socially constructed. Inequality is recent in human history (less than 1% of our time here on earth) Men and women are inherently different because of biology e. g. testosterone and endorphins. This would be using biological reductionism to explain complex social behaviors: a form of gender essentialism, gender and race are the product of power and differences. Sex refers to the natural or biological differences that are used to distinguish bodies into types, physical vice.
