SOCI 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Wilbert E. Moore, Deng Xiaoping, Kingsley Davis
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Titanic some categories of passengers had better odds of survival than others: women and children boarded lifeboats first (80% died were men) , not simply a reflection of individual differences. Born into wealthy: carries from generation to generation. Parents pass social position on to their children. Social mobility a change in position within the social hierarchy, up or down: modest beginnings to fame and fortune; business setbacks, unemployment, illness. Horizontal switch jobs in same social level: universal but variable. What or how it is unequal varies from society to another: prestige; wealth or power; some contain more inequality than others, beliefs and inequality explanations of why people should be unequal. Define arrangements as fair; what of social inequalities, the. Closed systems little change in social position; caste system. Open systems permit much more social mobility; class system. Reduced economic inequality, but overall living standards far behind other industrial nations. Tried to generate economic growth by reducing centralized control of economy.
