SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Erik Olin Wright, Gerhard Lenski, Dependency Theory
23 Jun 2016
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Inequality caused by male political, legal, economic advantage. Women are more likely to be poor as compared to men. Ch 11 siq the feminization of poverty: females are more likely to be poor, single parents risks the increase, senior women too. Macro labour market, occupational sex segration, political structure (how it has barriers in women), legal system. Micro how inequality is reinforced intimate one to one. Criticicsm places too much on gender and not much on race, ethnicity, age. Max weber class - says that there are other sources of power. Status refers to prestige, usualy through job and occupation: might not own property but might have a certain degree of power b/c of their job position, politicians comes from backgrounds with high level of prestige. Neo he means that he follows karl marx and modifying it. Marx focussed on owning and working class.
