Sociology 2191A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Quartile, Transferrin, Canada Games
4 Jan 2016
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Categories of people who share an economic position in society based on a combination of their earnings, wealth, education, occupation, and social connections. Similar odds for achieving economic success and gaining economic power in society. Structured forms of economic inequalities that are part of the organization of everyday social life. Social relations and interactions between people of different social classes that result from the power differences between different classes of persons. Society where achievement and success are supposed to be based on a person"s skills and abilities. How people in upper socioeconomic classes use their income, wealth, and power to maintain privileged positions in society and pass that privilege from one generation to the next. Elite and powerful groups in society have always had control over what counts as sport. Framework determined by adults and serves to legitimize and reproduces the power that adults have over the lives of children. Failure is associated with weak character and poor choices.
