SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Gini Coefficient, Gross Domestic Product, Social Inequality
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Oppressed classes can bring about change only after they become aware of their position functional theory of stratification maintains that most people in most industrial societies agree about relative social value of particular roles. E. g. doctors receive more money than teachers and worth more. However not all inequalities in canada and us is due to exploitation in the form that marx imagined. Class formation requires the growth of class consciousness and four important changes identifying themselves as members of an exploited class. 1: seeing that the owners of the means of production are their enemy, realizing that everything is at stake in the battle for equality, recognizing that societal change is possible through conflict. Engineering, management, accounting and law are especially good ladders this can happen regardless of their class origin. Social mobility: the movement of individuals from one social class to another during the course of one"s lifetime.
