SOSA 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Stratification, International Inequality, Social Inequality

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1003
• Professor: Falconer C.

Document Summary

Sosa 1003 lecture 14 october 19, 2018 chapter 6 (social stratification: canadian and global. Writers and filmmakers sometimes tell stories about shipwrecks and tier survivors to make a point about social inequality. They use the shipwreck as a literary device that allows them to sweep away all traces of privilege and social convention. What remains are human beings stripped to their essentials, guinea pigs in an imaginary laboratory for the study of wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness, esteem and disrespect. Titanic is a more recent movie on the shipwreck-and inequality theme. At one level, the movie shows that class differences are important. For example, in first class, living conditions are luxurious, whereas in third class, they are cramped. Indeed, on the titanic, class differences spell the difference between life and death. Social stratification is the way society is organized in layers or strata.