SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Inequality, Social Stratification, Social Class
11 Nov 2018
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1) brainstorm everything you know about social class. 2) brainstorm what interests you about social class. 3) develop either a quantitative or a qualitative research question about social class. Little et al refer to aboriginal people, better to refer to indigenous people. Social stratification in historic and contemporary canada racialized in many ways. Discussion of global stratification suggests that developed nations took advantage" of nations in the global south, nations in the global north amassed their wealth through centuries of pillage. Much exploitation of lands, people on global south premised on racist logic. Class: inequality among groups of people based on the distribution of material resources and social capital (power) (tepperman and curtis 2009, p. 430). People"s class is based on their ability to gain resources and power. Social inequality: unequal distribution of valued resources, rewards and positions in a society (little et al, p. 268).
