SOCIOL 1101 Lecture Notes - Erik Olin Wright, Social Stratification, Cultural Capital
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Social equality- a condition in which no differences in wealth, power, prestige, or status based. Elite mass dichotomy-system of stratification that has a governing elite, a few leaders on non-natural conventions exist. who broadly hold power in society. Three major institutional forces in modern american society where the power of decision making. Equality of condition - the idea that everyone should have an equal starting point. has become centralized: economic institutions, political order, and the military order. Equality of outcome - everyone ends up the same at the end. For mills, the elite are those who have the most money, power, and prestige. forms of stratification *ceptioneusclassstructure. More complex: upper, upper-middle, middle, lower middle, working, poor: estate system-politically based system of stratification characterized by limited social mobility. laws are written in a language in which rights and duties separate individuals and distribute power unequally. Social reproduction prevailed you are what your parents were.
