SOC 2010 Lecture Notes - Ascribed Status, Socioeconomic Status, Achieved Status
4 Dec 2013
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Soc 2010 lecture #6 september 26th 2013. Society based on meritocracy: looking at people achieving different roles. Society values social mobility: people being born into a wealthy home. Class: looking at different types of gauges to determine where people stand, one occupies in economics. With class, we begin to talk about material things. Why is class important: helps us determine where people stand [placing] Shifts in where people work: ex. Decrease in farming increasing in service paid jobs. Decline of wages (inflation: lack of opportunity. Lost job security: number of jobs being lost, significant change in job situations. Intergenerational occupational mobility: where within our own lifetime, we see people in our own generation doing better or worse. Career changes (3-4) in a life time. Soc 2010 lecture #6 september 26th 2013: where people wind up after education. Canada"s problem: people working believing that if they work hard they will reach the top. Even though it"s plausible, sometimes it just isn"t.
