SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dominant Ideology, False Consciousness, Achieved Status
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Stratification and social mobility in the united states. Social inequality: different members of society are not treated equally or fairly. Stratification: stratification: a systematic way of maintaining unequal economic and power in a society. Income: refers to salaries and wages: wealth: your income and all the things you own. Status: status: position within a society"s system, ascribed status: position assigned to person with little to no effort; just given, achieved status: a social position a person works towards. Dubois says that america has a castes system: estate system: landownership and lack thereof. Lower class: 20- 25% of us population lives in poverty. Underclass: poor people are disadvantaged economically because they could not receive the proper methods of obtaining credentials. Life chances: life chance: their opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, an favorable life experiences, digital divide- access to technology is unequal, ex: cell phone service.
