SOC355H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Capital, Human Capital, Lost Experience
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1. perspectives on labour market inequality: formal theories & explanations, work, family & gender, horizontal labour market inequality (horizontal occupational segregation. 2. applying these concepts, theories, and ideas to understand horizontal inequality in professions in terms of gender, race & ethnicity. Institutions: government policies & legislation (economic, social & legal: socialization: family & wider expectations in society, access to social & cultural capital, friendship and acquaintance network, education: years of education, subjects studied. 1: the wider the discrepancy in job characteristics among the categories of these social groups, the stronger the evidence of social inequalities. Permanent: on staff in a big firm vs. independent practice, or vice versa in other professions, working in government or public sector vs. private industry, not practicing at all after graduation. A human capital perspective on horizontal inequality in the professions. Theory 1: dual economies (with a perspective to professional occupations) Theory 2: ilms (we will discuss this more during next week"s session on vertical inequality)
