SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Unequal Exchange, Bourgeoisie, Neoliberalism
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Chapter 1: the gordian knot of race, class, gender. C. wright mills defined sociological imagination as the ability to recognize the relationship between one"s personal life and the wider society. The three dimensions of inequality are race, class, and gender. These three dimensions intersect each other in the workforce. Newer forms of inequality include ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and age. They are not actually newer forms of inequality, but earlier theorists such as max weber just gave less attention to race and gender, than to class. Karl marx and friedrich engels contended that the first class division came along the lines of gender and age, as mean treated women and their children as their priority. Men became the dominant group, while women became the subordinate group. Max weber states that people are stratified according to three divisions: class, status (prestige), and party (political party).
