SOCI 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ethnocentrism
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Stratification: breaking down into class: high, middle, low, lowest = inequality inequality= good, helps people try to improve the society. Feminism some focus on socialization, some focus on gender inequality (trying to change the status of men and women) - changing gender socialization. Some feminists - trying to change the structure of society people for the same jobs get paid the same regardless of gender (carol smart) Society: organized interaction by persons within a geographically or political area guided by a culture that establishes boundaries between one society and another: no culture = no society. Society: organized stable interaction between people children raised in isolation from family and adults cannot feel, think, like normal humans interaction would be difficult if languages differ, there would be misunderstandings. Immigration melting pot (e. g in the us) give into the american identity. Thus norms and sanctions are created: when you die, you can either get burned (indian culture), burried, etc.
