SOCI 1001H Study Guide - Final Guide: Mass Media, Social Inequality, Media Culture
13 Apr 2017
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Social strati cation: a system in which a society rank orders categories of people in a hierarchy. Social inequality: used to describe how certain attributes that are deemed to be valuable are unevenly distributed across social groups. Three key forms of strati cation: class, gender, race & ethnicity. 1: class opposition, class totality, alternative vision for society. Difference between ascribed status and achieved status: ascribed status. A social position generally conferred at birth: achieved status. A social position which is earned on the basis of how well an individual performs a certain role. This means it is not an equal situation: social strati cation is intertwined in the social with strati cation (inequality, distribution of wealth. Few people at the top, many at the bottom, its unequal. Social class according to two of the founding fathers: karl marx : believed that you needed to understand social class if you wanted to understand society, 2 central classes in capitalism.
