SOCIOL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Redlining, Social Stratification, Urban Sociology
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Week 6 lecture 1 social stratification urban sociology; Personal achievement, hard work redistribution, inheritance tax; More equal distribution: economy drive, sign of hope, self-interests, afford basics needs, health care . Most want more equal distribution of wealth in us. Definition: a hierarchical system for categorizing people, ranking them as superior or inferior and using this to divide resources necessary for surviva , structured inequality, socially patterned inequality aimed at distributing limited resources. Politically based system of stratification characterized by limited social mobility. Eg. social organization of feudal europe and the pre-civil war american south: caste system. A system of stratification based on hereditary notions of religious and theological purity and generally offers no prospects for social mobility. Eg. varna system in india: class system. Economically based system of stratification characterized by somewhat loose social. 2 mobility and categorizes based on roles in the production process rather than individual characteristics: social mobility.