SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Psychology, Proletariat, Grammatical Gender
28 Jun 2018
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Topic 3
Social inequality topic 3
- We live in which the rules and laws are organized around capitalist ideas (we live in a
capitalist society)
- Capitalism is competition, ownership, entrepreneurship, invisible hand of the market,
self-profit through the purchase and selling of goods
Capitalism
- Short term goal is to maximize profit
- Brings together many elements as capital
- Human labor becomes a commodity
- Tendency to commodify all aspects of life
- Importance of capital over money
- We buy and sell our time for money
- Relationship between time and money is capital to capitalism
- Capitalist word: research and development
- When you use money to buy labor, your turning labor to capitalism
- Capitalism encourages people to go from producers to consumers
- Finding cheaper labor or materials across the world is globalization
- Built into capitalism are pushes to globalization and constant research and development
Dynamics of capitalism
- Overproduction and periodic crisis
- Corporation is larger and larger corporates
- First phase of capitalism is merchants
Beginning of capitalism
- Shift to forms of economic coercion
- Forms of coercion are economic as well
- Gross world product= $75trillion
Income inequality
Income
- The economic gain derived from wages, salaries, income, transfers government aid), and
equity and ownership of property
- Pattern: average income of three lowest quintiles has decreased while the upper two
have increased substantially
Wealth
- Includes property such as buildings, land, farms, houses, factories, and cars, as well as
other assets such as bank accounts, corporate stocks, bonds and insurance policies. Also
called Net Worth
- Wealth in Canada: top 1% has a minimum of 1M in investable assets
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Objective method
Intersectionality: different groups interact, different things within someone
Lecture 4
Major theoretical perspectives on socialization
Functionalist
- Theory stresses that the socialization of society’s members is essential to meet their
goals of consensus, stability and equilibrium in society
Conflict
- Conflict theorists argue that the messages communicated through the various forms of
socialization reflect the inherent inequalities of a capitalist society
Feminist
- Socialization into masculine and feminine gender roles take place in the family, among
peers, in the school, in the workplace and through mass media
Social psychological and interactionist perspective
- Self: distinct identity that sets us apart from others
- Cooley: looking glass self
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- Our view of ourselves comes from contemplation of personal qualities and our
impressions of how others perceive us
- The self is the product of our social interaction with other people
- Goffman: presentation of the self
- Impression management: individual learns to slant the presentation of self to create
distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences
- Goffman’s view sometimes called Dramaturgical Approach: people resemble performers
in action
-Face work
Postmodern self
the saturated self”
- Gergen: a most modern analysis
- Multiphrenia
- Members and diversity of relationships has increased
- The dissolution of the self
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Topic 3 Social Inequality
Capitalism
- A system for the production of commodities or services for exchange in order to realize
profit
- Brings together many elements as capital
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Document Summary
We live in which the rules and laws are organized around capitalist ideas (we live in a capitalist society) Capitalism is competition, ownership, entrepreneurship, invisible hand of the market, self-profit through the purchase and selling of goods. We buy and sell our time for money. When you use money to buy labor, your turning labor to capitalism. Relationship between time and money is capital to capitalism. Capitalism encourages people to go from producers to consumers. Finding cheaper labor or materials across the world is globalization. Built into capitalism are pushes to globalization and constant research and development. The economic gain derived from wages, salaries, income, transfers government aid), and equity and ownership of property. Pattern: average income of three lowest quintiles has decreased while the upper two have increased substantially. Includes property such as buildings, land, farms, houses, factories, and cars, as well as other assets such as bank accounts, corporate stocks, bonds and insurance policies.
