SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Stratification, Class Consciousness, Social Inequality
12 Nov 2016
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Introduction to the concept of social inequality" (as intertwined with stratification) Introduction it ascribed" and achieved" statuses (focus on ascribed" class/gender/race) Many divisions within canadian society lead to certain consequences for certain groups in a society. Divisions also lead to a great deal of conflict. Make up what is canadian society fundamental. To say a society is stratified, we are saying it is divided into hierarchical categories. A system in which a society rank orders categories of people in a hierarchy. To study a society, you need to look at the stratification within that society. How various groups of people are ranked within that society. When you have hierarchical divines, you have a system in which some people get more than others some are higher up, some are lower down. Social stratification is intertwined with the concept of social inequality. Used to describe how certain attributes that are deemed to be valuable are unevenly distributed across social groups.
