SOCI 1003 Lecture Notes - Social Stratification, Blue-Collar Worker, Longitudinal Study
28 Jul 2014
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Resources (economic, social, political) are unequally distributed in society (ue. d) Way of thinking about how material wealth is distributed in any society. Quintiles: each of five ranked groups making up to 20 percent of a total population. Deciles: ranked groups each making up 10 percent of a total population. Richard wanner (2009) in canada there is still a major inheritance of privilege/ advantage-different levels of access to post secondary education. Krahn (2009) 14 year longitudinal study of high school graduates in edmonton. Kids from families with one or more uni educated parents were 3x more likely to complete uni themselves. More jobs require higher education- proportion of blue collar declined. If something socially exists then it must serve some function in society. Every society has jobs that require: diff levels of training, more and less desirable, more/less important (ex. Society economically rewards those jobs that require longer training, are more important. The status of these occupations reflects their social importance.
