SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Gaetano Mosca, Social Mobility, Middle Ages

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Janitorial: migrant farm workers (see john steinberg"s grapes of wrath, street sweepers, shoe shiners conflict theorists like political reasons for inequality. Someone will make more money than you because it"s justified they have more intelligence, and more education and skills. Natural talent is unevenly distributed some people score higher/lower than other people. People get jobs probably by networking you know a friend or family member that has links on jobs (you have approval of someone already working there) There"s a powerful link between education and income. If there"s no political system, there will be chaos. You need coordination of people"s behavior and then decision making. When you have power inequality, you have material inequality. If power differences are inevitable, so are material differences (income, money) Michelles the iron law of oligarchy: Leaders may promise change, but inequality and corruption always returns. A group of people are running society.

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