SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gini Coefficient, Power Politics, James Truslow Adams
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Individual effort: we tell ourselves social mobility is possible in the u. s, hardwork (cid:498)american dream(cid:499) james truslow adams during depression in the country, publisher said he wouldn"t publish the title. Horatio alger jr. ; author of books for young boys (novels about poor boys who rose to the top) Labor and capital"s 19th century struggle could be violent. Class can be mapped = education levels in manhattan. Dark blue = population had advanced degree (mostly blue) Social mobility is the ability to move through the class structure. Max webere: unlike marx, who saw class as the central hieracrchy. Equality: the gini coefficient (measures how much inequality is in a society)
