SOCI 333 Quiz: Tilly reading summary
30 Oct 2015
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We will return to this next week and the book unequal childhoods which we will read the two following weeks centrally builds on these ideas costs & benefits = goods broadly defined vary in extent to which they are autonomous: observable without reference to outside units, such as accumulations of food, wealth, income, health relative: observable only in relation to other units, as in prestige, power, & clinetele < also called positional good, on the grounds that they attach to positions rather than to persons inequalities with respect to autonomous goods reach greater extreme than inequalities with respect to relative goods relative goods generally occupy a subordinate, derivative position, where they serve as a means of creating or maintaining categorical inequality with respect to autonomous goods p. 31 he illustrates his critique of individualist approaches to explaining inequality, among others, with the example of gender differences.
