SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Parking Enforcement Officer, Krahn People, Working Poor
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Best way to visualize inequality is via a pyramid. Polarization also requires both wealth and poverty, but is conceptually missing its middle". Under polarization, the population is grouped into, or concentrated into, two distinct regions or poles" of the income distribution one poorer, one richer. Speaks of changes in the occupational structure. Having skills in an institutional society is highly valued. Speaks in the decline of unions because they don"t have as much strength as they did in the. Life chances: a person"s chances of obtaining those things defined as desirable and avoiding those things defined as undesirable in their society haralambos and holborn (2010) Social class : (three most important dimensions: economic dimension (marx and weber, political dimension (weber, cultural dimension (weber) Social class categories (uk example 1911-1980: 1. Professional: accountant, doctor, clergyman, university professor: 2. Intermediate: pilot, farmer, manager, police officer, teacher: 3n. Non manual skilled: clerical worker, sales rep. , shop assistant, secretary: 3m.
