ECON 1013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Interracial Marriage, Ascribed Status, Endogamy
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Social stratification: hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources. Life chances: extent to which individual have-access to important social resources, such as good, clothing, shelter, education and health care. Open system: the boundaries between levels in the hierarchies are more flexible and may be influenced by people"s achieved status: have social mobility: movement of the individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another. Intergenerational mobility: social movement experienced by the family members from one generation to the next. Intragenerational mobility: social movement of individuals within their own social lifetime. Closed system: boundaries between levels in the hierarchies of social stratification are rigid and people"s positions are set by ascribed status. Coercion is used to keep slaves in their place. The caste system: system of social inequality where people"s status is permanently determined at birth based on their parents ascribed characterizes: considered to be a closed system.
