SOCA01H3 Chapter : Stratification Then Lecture Notes.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCA01H3
• Professor: Malcolm Mac Kinnon

Document Summary

Stratification: politics and social complexity both involved. Social complexity: social differentiation (differentiation comes from biology humans are highly differentiated; specialized cells: also called complex division of labour = social differentiation. The modern world, there are thousands of different occupations = division of labour. Some of them are smarter than others intelligence is unequally distributed: degree of effort: geniuses are obsessed with their work it is difficult to separate intelligence iq scores and motivation. Level of education: clear-cut in determining economic success. Inequality is a power and whenever you have politics you have inequalities of power. There have to be leaders and followers: punch line: with political inequality then you have inequalities in wealth = inevitable. Inevitable because mosca links up with conflict theory when he says, self-interest is another reason why inequality is inevitable; self-interest = me first, everyone else last; human nature is self-serving. In politics, if you have power, you take advantage of it!