SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Endogamy, Exogamy, Pierre Bourdieu
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Social stratification organization of society divided into layers or strata e. g. based on income, wealth, or social status. Caste, feudal and industrial class systems of stratification. Feudal systems: social organization based in system of promises and obligations, supported by military/legal (and religious) infrastructure, duties (e. g. protection/security) performed in exchange for land, emerge during periods of instability and unrest. A couple may be of opposite or same sex. By definition, all persons who are members of a census family are also members of an economic family. Measures of economic inequality in canada: income quintile shares the income quintile share measures and compares the share of total income earned by each fifth of the population, ranked by income. Income quintile shares in canada, economic families of two or more (data from 1976-2009) The gini index reports the proportion of total income that would have to be redistributed for perfect equality to exist, whereby: