ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Stratification, Internalized Racism, Ascribed Status
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Lecture 10 (thinking about social stratification: class and caste, Race is not a biological category, but it is an important social category. Yields enormous power and cause strife and suffering. For others, it can give them an enormous amount of privilege. Often gives many people a sense of belonging, identify, and community. Concept of racism was evoked to differentiate between "we" and. Racial worldview has created inequality, not the other way around. Shaped various institutions and practices in ways that have created real inequality in racial groups. Social stratification is the ordering and ranking of individuals (and groups) within society n: class and caste, within society. This ranking is normally based on pervasive systems of inequality that privilege particular classes, castes, races, or genders over others (sa page 187) Top of hierarchy is given more prestige and privileges in society. Rankings are not random, based on pervasive systems of inequality.
