SOCIOL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subdominant, Social Inequality, Bulgarian Lev
18 Nov 2016
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Socio106 lecture 10 why status matters for inequality. If we constrain our analyses to inequality processes at one level at a time, these multi-level mechanisms will continually elude our grasp. Why status matters: why do cultural status beliefs about social differences that is, evaluative beliefs about contrasting categories or types of people matter for inequality, first, inequality based purely on organizational control of resources and power is inherently unstable. It gives rise to a constant struggle between dominant and subdominant individuals. To persist, that is, for inequality to become durable inequality, control over resources and power has to be consolidated with a categorical difference between people such as race, gender, or life style. It does so because it transforms the situational control over resources and power into a status difference between types of people that are evaluatively ranked in terms of how diffusely better they are.
