SOC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Symbolic Interactionism, Racial Steering, Social Inequality
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What would each theory focus on: conflict theorists- social status, who is making the laws, structural functionalist- are the laws protecting us, symbolic interactionists- focus on media reinforcement. Complexity of inequality: institutionalization of race inequalities. Symbolic interactionism and free speech: according to symbolic interactionism, Words are (cid:374)e(cid:448)er (cid:862)just (cid:449)ords(cid:863), the(cid:455) are s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ols that (cid:272)arr(cid:455) meaning. The meanings of symbols can be contested, but this does not change the power or hurtfullness of these symbols. Social stratification: e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple: a(cid:448)oidi(cid:374)g (cid:862)a(cid:272)(cid:272)ide(cid:374)tal ra(cid:272)is(cid:373)(cid:863, systems of social inequality and structure of class mobility in a society. About more than just money, belief systems benefit some. Contemporary class systems- based on economic position; results of income, education, occupation, possessions. Belief in middle-class mobility is an important part of the.
