SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Stratification, Cultural Capital, Organ Transplantation
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Cultural capital emphasizes a set of social skills people have, their ability securing a superior job opportunities to impress others, to use language and images effectively and to influence and persuade people. People are poor because they don"t want to work. The overwhelming majority of poor people are immigrants. The welfare rolls are crammed with young people who ought to be earning. Its value ranges from 0 (which means that every household earns exactly the same amount of money) to 1 (which means that all income is earned by a single household) countries in their stratification systems. In the real world, nearly all societies have gini indices between 0. 2 and 0. 6. It consigned the large black majority to menial jobs, prevented marriage between blacks and whites and erected separate public facilities for members of the 2 races. In exchange, landlords were required to protect peasants from marauders and open their storehouses to feed the peasants if crops failed.
