SOC 2390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Patricia Hill Collins, Feminist Epistemology, Meritocracy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2390
• Professor: Michael Follert

Document Summary

Criticisms of functionalism: assumes no discrimination based on race, gender, lack of education or lack of opportunity, fails to see the ways parents are passing on class status to kids or generationally (reproducing in/ out of group distinctions) The dominant modes of stratification across times and places (porter: caste system. Absolute limits on social mobility, inter-group contact or inter-group marriage. Primarily social or status based-criteria for group memberships. Embedded in social nad economic structures some argue race comes into this: estate. Some formal contraints on social mobility, inter-group contact exists. Groupings according to both social and economic criteria. Social mobility possible in principle but limited by social structure. Grouped according to economic criteria; class is an economic classification , in contrast with caste system were status is born with and unmoving. It (cid:271)ids us to ig(cid:374)o(cid:396)e privilege, power, and deep pockets at least for certain purposes.