SOCI 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Corel, Dependency Theory, Social Inequality
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Chapter 8: social stratification: titanic/ rose and jack- class and gender greatly affected who survived and who died on the titanic. Rose was of the upper class and a woman, thus given the opportunity to get on a life boat. Jack was of the lower class and a man, thus denied the opportunity to get on a life boat: social stratification/ principles of- social stratification is a system by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. It is based on 4 important principles: 1) social stratification is a trait of society, not simply a reflection on individual differences. The questions of why people should be unequal differ from society to society: social mobility- a change in position within the social hierarchy. The trend reverses itself as industrial societies relax rigid, castelike distinctions in favor of greater opportunity and equality under the law. Political rights are more widely extended and there is even some leveling of economic differences.
