SOC 2010 Lecture Notes - Black Model, Social Stratification
18 Oct 2012
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September 25, 2012: we rank people based on a number of features, these are used to sort people, examples: appearance (we rank people based on how they look, if they have a job, looking for wedding bands). How much money they make: someone who is a high school drop out has a lower social status compared to someone who has a ba. The face of inequality: media, new indicators of stratification, grades can be bought from some private schools. Students like these are beating out students that do try. Major ceo"s earn more in a week than the average: income. Education, career (truck driver is not a bad job, but they have less social status than say a. Dentist), ethnic status, gender, regionalism (regional inequality): someone who is lower on the stratification system has lower power, lower education, lower prestige, form - family. Money (not necessarily talking directly about money, but showing off things that money may have gotten them).
