SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wield, Erik Olin Wright, Petite Bourgeoisie
18 Apr 2016
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Wolves: hierarchy with alpha male and female on top. Social animals: commonly have hierarchic social structure o o. Humans: also have hierarchic social relations but different from termites and wolves o o o. Our social structure isn"t biologically determined (like wolves and termites) Evolutionary biology: ability to spread genes, higher up in community leads to higher ranking, opportunity, access to resources etc. Creative intelligence: allows us to organize our social relations in a great variety of ways o. These relations have some type of rank and hierarchy. Stratification: term used to refer to the hierarchal organization of social relations o. The structuring of social relations by layers o. One group has a greater power, influence, resources, prestige than another. Inequality: related to stratification, as stratification is collective forms of inequality. Omnipresence: all societies are unequal and stratified o o. That said, there is much variation in stratification - both degree and type.
