SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Upper Class, Social Mobility, Modernization Theory
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February 7, 2013: stratification is the way society is organized in layers or strata. Basically, a society"s hierarchical ranking of people into social classes. It"s like a ladder, where people are higher or lower than others depending on their class. It is related to education, language, crime and deviance, etc. It is related to class background and helps increase education levels and makes an individual more confident: ex. As a child, bill played soccer, went to museums with his family, talked while at the doctors instead of having his mother talk for him, etc. Basically, social inequality is about where people are on the ladder (stratification) and how this ranking affects their lifestyle (their job, education etc). This is a trend in canada and many other countries around the world: since 1976, all income from all classes has decreased expect for the top class, quintiles are groups. Ex. have a population and divide it into five groups.
