SOCIOL 3463 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kuznets Curve, The Sociological Imagination, Anatolia
13 Mar 2018
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The roots of inequality, the gordian knot and why to keep it in mind. Fable regarding alexander the great coming to asia minor. Inequalities all tied together, may be advantaged in one aspect, have a disadvantage in a different aspect all tangled together like the knot. Status and inequality: class, race and gender, marx and weber, other potentially meaningful status distinctions: age, sexual orientation, appearance. Socially constituted and variable across societies: hierarchical in character and culturally justified or legitimated, potentially important for life chances and opportunities, but also identities. Status hierarchies: hierarchy across time and place, the kuznets curve and inequality.
