SOC100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Upper Class, Premarital Sex, Monopoly Capital
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Gender and sexuality: systems of domination 16. Gender and sexuality: the feminine mystique 21. Ways to measure inequality: wealth distribution: measures differences in total wealth (including pension funds, housing and all other assets, income distribution: measures differences in annual income from wages, investments in a particular year. Stratification: any system of ranking people in a society, as demonstrated in objectively- identifiable ways (may include political, gendered, ethnic, or economic forms) Every society has some form of stratification (no society is effectively equal because there is always someone with higher status/power) Natural inequalities (intelligence, strength, ability to work) may lead to small differences in possessions. Strata: ranks society as a whole by one principle (usually wealth), and then compares people as statistical groups (quantiles) Strata is just a statistical construct of the sociologist, and there is no claims of objective unity. Class: describes certain shared economic features or situations of a group (characteristics they have in common)
