SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thomas Robert Malthus, Social Inequality, 1.-Class Torpedo Boat

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: John Brent

Document Summary

Ex. taxing 1% higher to redistribute wealth debate: ferguson and miller, agreed with rousseau, but also argued that this is good because it means that some people are getting ahead and creating assets. Unintended positive consequence: thomas malthus, viewed inequality favorably as a means for controlling population growth, a more equal distribution would increase world"s population, create unsustainable levels and bring about mass starvation and conflict. Don"t know who the 1 person suppressing us is: standards of equality, equality of opportunity, inequality is acceptable so long as: Ascribed status : the class system: economically based system, loose social mobility based on roles in the production. Based off who owns means of production (ceo, manager, worker) Based on what you do not your bloodlines: not about individual characteristics. Can be lower class but present status of something else. Ie. knockoffs: status suppresses discontent and anxiety with class inequality. Alleviates need to overthrow: 2 ways of analyzing stratification, class versus status stratification.