SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Third Period, First Period, Herbert J. Gans

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Dahab

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This inequality may be based on economics, gender, race, religion, age, or another factor. Three key aspects: class, status, and power -from max weber. Three primary characteristics: systems of inequality are organized around groups with shared characteristics, the social location of a group is significant is in terms of the life chances of members, rankings of groups change only very slowly. Type of jobs you get, get salaries, offer benefits and stability. Cashiers, waiters, people who are designated part time status, with no benefits, stability, or long term security. Intergenerational mobility - comparing your parent"s job to your job to see if you are moving up. Intragenerational mobility- comparison of yourself at two different periods. White professionals are 20-25x as likely to have more wealth than black professionals. We have a race component built into our classes. Permanent poverty- whites are 3x more likely to move out of poverty.