SOCL 2001 : Sociology Patterson Exam 3 Textbook Outline
Document Summary
Why is social stratification universal: functionalist view: motivating qualified people, patterns of behavior that characterize a society exist because they are functional for that society. Because social inequality is universal, inequality must help societies survive: davis and moore"s explanation. How do elites maintain stratification: medieval europe, nobility and church owned everything; peasants worked the land, but each year they had to turn over some land to nobility, ideology even controls leaders. Comparative social stratification: british are very class conscious, language and education. Global stratification: most industrialized, us, canada, germany, france. Industrializing: former soviet union, china (no middle class), brazil, japan, better than least, but not as good as most, least industrialized, live in farms or villages, poverty. Physical health and social class: social class opens door to medical care, lifestyle: low class are overweight, smoke, and abuse drugs, life is hard on the poor weak immune systems.
