SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Economic Surplus, Deindustrialization, School
2 Aug 2018
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Blaming the system: perspective holds that systematic discrimination exists within the social system, more consistent with sociological perspective, deindustrialization: transformation of an economy from one based on manufacturing to one based on services. Influences unemployment: social welfare programs as encouraging laziness, dependency, and poverty. If touched by one you need to go through cleaning rituals: this system is hereditary and one cannot change their caste even if they come into a lot of money. Open systems: class: class structure: society"s economic hierarchy that categorizes groups of people based on their socioeconomic status, one"s own merit within class structure. Important to look at all 3 factors of ses as one can be misleading: lawyer vs. drug dealer (wealthy, but careers are held in different prestige) Intergenerational earnings: a comparison between father"s and a son"s earnings: lower ige scores indicate more open system, canadians able to move between classes, us cannot. Property and occupational prestige: two components of inequality: property.
