SA 100W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Stratification, Symbolic Interactionism, Iqvia

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 100W
• Professor: Karl Froschauer

Document Summary

Social strati cation: study of structure and consequences of ranking patterns in societies (personal characteristics [ex. 31655$, job] vs. group characteristics [ex. race, ethnicity]) Quintiles: dividing total population into ve equal parts; if income distributed evenly w/in ve parts, each part = 20: lower the quintile, lower the share of income. Industrialization = higher demand for specialized training and expertise. Class based on relationship w/ production; where you t in the corporate capital social scale. Four speci c types: capitalist/executive class (lowest population): power over production and labour, old middle class (2nd lowest pop. ): little power over production, not labour: new middle class (3rd lowest pop. ): little power over labour, not production: working class (highest pop. 1965: john porter and the cultural mosaic of can: some ethnic group in better social position than others due to early settlement of.