SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge, Rob Ford, Social Inequality
Document Summary
The role of social origins: cultural capital is often acquired, which plays a part in people"s life, social capital has to do with who you know chances. Rags to riches: people are likely to stay where they start (e. g. , inertia) Natural inequalities: natural inequalities such as appearance, intelligence, health, etc, natural differences give rise to natural inequalities. Intersectionality: different kinds of inequalities (e. g. , gender, class) interact/intersect with one another to produce outcomes that cannot be predicted by simply adding together the separate factors. Status inconsistency: people with status inconsistency tend to be politically radical. Lives are complex, not unique: there is an assumption that people lives can be analyzed and explained. Views about inequality: there is no known human society that has no inequality, there is a considerable range of inequality over history and from one culture to another. The social construction of problems: social problems (e. g. , crimes, homelessness) are brought to our attention by claims-makers.
