SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Structural Functionalism, Consumerism, Meritocracy
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Social inequality: inequality in the distribution of societal values caused by any ascribed or achieved characteristics. Wealth: how much material goods and financial resources. Power: ability to influence the behavior others despite initial resistance. Prestige: degree of respect you get from others in society. Includes gender, ethnic, racial, etc, inequality and se (class position/social status) Se inequality is a relatively stable pattern (hierarchy) of social sanctioned (believe is justified by society, lowest in agricultural societies), economic inequality. Income from investment is more stable than income from employment. Inequality exists in all known societies, se inequality exists in nearly all known societies (hunting/gathering societies: gender and age inequality but no economic inequality because of lack of private property) 1 distributional: hierarchical arrangement of individuals based upon wealth, power and prestige. Looking at entire society as a collection of individuals and rank each individual based on their unique level of wpp.
