SOCY 122 Chapter : Social Inequality

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Huynh: woman wrestler in the olympics, her victory indicated how much the social landscape for women had changes during the 21st century. There is still the need for more changes to ensure greater equality of opportunity. Greater condition, treatment for both men and women in the social structure: her gold symbolized rewards. Her medal reflects issues around racialization: huynh symbolizes strength of small towns in canada. Superiority of small town traditional communities over the anonymity of modernized urban world. One for all, all for one: her victory signals the broadening of the social. Sports are involved with: differentiation, stratification (arranging people into classes) Meritocracy: nothing other than performance determines ones merit or ranking among individual competitors or teams, hierarchal ranking and reward system, individual will end up with greater merit at the top, and less for those at the bottom. People at the stop would act like magnets: draw people into the sport system.