SOCIOL 2R03 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Social Inequality, Hunter-Gatherer, United Nations Development Programme
1 Dec 2016
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Continued wage gaps between nations have led to outsourcing, labour migration, and immigration, the most rapidly growing income inequalities are now those within nations between new elites and the excluded and marginalized classes. Inequality"s core dimensions: class, race, gender. Some dimensions are bound together and hard to disentangle: race, ethnicity, religion. Luck is important in society: having access to right schools, financial resources, business and professional contacts and particular opportunities. Strata: layers with discernible borders between the levels. Sociological perspective of social inequality seeks to examine patterns going beyond certain scenarios to explore differences in the constraints that shape people"s choices: tries to dig deeper in a macro perspective, not micro. Interested in how inequality is structured systematic inequality. Key theme: who we become is part of a complicated interplay outcome, between individual characteristics and our role in society (this determines which characteristics are encouraged, constrained and rewarded)
