SOCA01H3 Chapter 7: Sociology Chapter 7.doc
5 Mar 2012
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Chapter 7- social stratification: canadian and global perspectives. Shipwrecks used to illustrate patterns of social inequality, social conventions of power and privilege are erased in these circumstances, wealth and power are unimportant. Example: robinson crusoe: man marooned on deserted island, but his hard work and will turn the island into a thriving colony. Swept away: man and women shipwrecked of unequal status get together and fall in love, but when escape island women returns to her higher status and the man to his lower one. At another level, shows optimistic story where class difference don"t matter (where 2 lovers of different statuses fall in love) There is a market for body parts or bodies, people can purchase organs for transplantation. People selling body parts are usually poor, while people buying them are usually wealthy (take organs to foreign countries with own surgeons in order to save themselves)
