SOCIOL 2R03 Quiz: [SOCIOL 2R03] - Quiz 1 (Chapters 1,2,3)
5 Oct 2016
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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) Social imagination: awareness of micro personal experience and the relation to that with macro society. Robeson county: courthouse that lists veterans in a hierarchy whites first, lumbee indians second, africans last. Employee turnover = 100% (5000 leave in a year, then 5000 more come)
