SOCI 1001H Study Guide - Final Guide: Ascribed Status, Class Consciousness, False Consciousness

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001H
• Professor: Deborah White

Document Summary

Day 6: stratification and inequality: class and gender. Karl marx: 2 central classes in capitalism. Max weber: class, status and party: **exam is non-cumulative*, social class as a stratification system, gender as a stratification system, stratification: a system in which a society rank orders categories of people in a hierarchy. 4 stages to the development of class consciousness. Public and private sphere people get more, others get less. Social inequality: social inequality: used to describe how certain attributes (wealth, political power, etc. ) that are deemed to be valuable are unevenly distributed across social groups. How do they decide who is higher up and what does that mean for those on the bottom: 3 forms of stratification: social class, race and gender. Characteristics most commonly used to rank people in our society. They reflect the power in our society and shape our society every time they are used. Believed that there was going to lead to an overthrow of the bourgeoisie.