SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ascribed Status, Blue-Collar Worker, Achieved Status

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Stratification and social mobility in the united states. People who hold regular manual or blue collar jobs. Gulf between richard everyone else in the u. s has grown over the last 50 years. Sociological perspectives of stratification: sociologists hotly debate stratification and social inequality, reaching varying conclusions, no theorists stressed significance of class for society more strongly than karl marx, max weber argued stratification has many dimensions. Functionalists perspective: social inequality necessary so people will be motivated to fill functionally important positions, all societies maintain some form of social inequality among their members, does not explain wide disparity between rich and poor. Multiple measures: socioeconomic status: measure of social class based on income, education, and occupation. Income and wealth: income in the us is distributed unequally, modest redistribution of income in past 80 years, wealth in the us much more unevenly distributed than income. Feminization of poverty: increase in families with woman as single heads of the household.