SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Inequality, Hunter-Gatherer, Social Stratification
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Class, race, and gender are three of inequalities core dimensions: all are equal in how they affect the world, one is not more important than the other. Inequality is the core of sociology and its analysis of society: the core of daily life. Inequalities like poverty are not things which happen to people due to laziness, but based on luck. Do(cid:374)(cid:859)t just stud(cid:455) the fa(cid:272)t of i(cid:374)e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455) (cid:271)ut ho(cid:449) i(cid:374)e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455) is st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)ed. Intersections of race, class, and gender in the us: textbook talked about examples relating to the industrialization of food production and how they hire and use people like machines with little pay. Also talked about the decline of union power in these types of industries. Also these examples stress the effects of gender and ethnicity at work (black people getti(cid:374)g the (cid:449)o(cid:396)se jo(cid:271)s, (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) getti(cid:374)g the less (cid:858)st(cid:396)e(cid:374)ghth(cid:859) (cid:396)elated jo(cid:271)s(cid:895)
