SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Wilbert E. Moore, Kingsley Davis, Gerhard Lenski
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Persistent patterns of social inequality with society. Gap between earning of average canadian worker and earnings of top ceos was more than 4x as high in 2007 than 1995. The manner in which valued resources (wealth, power, prestige) are distributed and the way which advantages of wealth, power and prestige are passed from generation to generation. Inequalities in wealth can threaten social stability: poor resenting the wealthy, demanding more equality. Essential for studying social change, since it is stratification that is changing: changing gender roles. In one form or another exists in all societies. Basic skills seldom the foundation of primary social hierarchies. Status: rank or position that a person has within a social hierarchy. Ascribed: assigned at birth, function of race, gender, age and other factors that are not chosen or earned and cannot be changed. Achieved: position in hierarchy has been achieved by virtue of how well someone performs in some role.
