SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: C. Wright Mills, Gerhard Lenski, The Communist Manifesto
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Chapter 1 - gordian knot of race, class, and gender. Social stratification - how inequalities in a society are sorted into identifiable layers of persons with common characteristics (social classes) Our life chances (what we hope for) and mobility (moving up and down the system) are socially conditioned and constrained. Who we become is the result of individual characteristics and our place in society. C wright mills - connecting personal biographies (experiences) to history and society and personal troubles and social conditions = sociological imagination. Marx and engels: race and gender (wrote: the communist manifesto) Men became the first dominant group (29) development of inequality: race, class, gender. Hunting and gathering societies - until about 10,000 years ago, everyone was this. Gender divided societies: men - hunt and women - gather. Men - long legs in sprinting, long arms throw spears. Men - nutrients, protein and women - essential food source (60-80%)
