CAS SO 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Symbolic Ethnicity, Sexual Identity

• School: Boston University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: CAS SO 100
• Professor: Eliana Stratico

Document Summary

Studying the social: positivism, research philosophy that looks for patterns in the social world, the social world can be known by certain predictable relationships, comes out of hard sciences approach of natural laws governing the world, quantitative. Politically based system of stratification characterized by limited social mobility. Religion based system of stratification characterized by no social: caste system mobility, class system. Economically based system of stratification characterized by relative categorization and loose social mobility. Karl marx: proletariat: working class, bourgeoisie: capitalist class, fundamental split between the owners of capital and the workers who don"t own capital, maturing of industrial capitalism would widen the gap between the have and have nots. Max weber: stratification isn"t solely income based; other differences, elite mass dichotomy system besides property like skills and credentials; status mattered. Governing elite; few people who hold the power in a society. Upper class want children to have a range of talents: concerned cultivation.