SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Social Stratification, Ascribed Status, Social Inequality
10 Feb 2013
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Social stratification: the hierarchal arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources. Involves patterns of structural inequality that are associated with membership in each of these groups. Max weber"s term life chances: the extent to which individuals have access to important societal resources, such as food, clothes, shelter, education and health care. Resources are anything valued in a society. In an open system, the boundaries between levels in the hierarchies are more flexible and may be influenced by people"s achieved status. In a closed system, the boundaries between levels in the hierarchies of social stratification are rigid, and people"s positions are set by their ascribed status (born with) We will study 3 systems of stratification: slavery, the caste system, and classes. An extreme form of stratification in which some people are owned by others. As practiced in north america, slavery had four primary characteristics.
