SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality, Intersectionality, Social Class
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Where do jobs come from: older people vacate them through retirement or death, private investors create them in an effort to reap profits, governments create them using tax revenues. Trying to cut taxes in order to appease tax payers. How people explain inequalities and how people justify inequalities: if women and men stop performing their stereotype, there would not be gender inequalities. A better name for this phenomenon would be conditionality. The conditions under which particular traits or characteristics (ex. Gender and race) combine to product a significant. Flows offers a new way of analyzing unequal life chances. Looks at the movement of discrete units : ex. Also, looks at the consequences of this flow for inequality. Explains the reproduction of social inequality: through the processes of diffusion, migration, mobility, and renewal. Focuses on the ways that people move around and the things that flow from person to person: ex. In flows, we ignore heroes and villains model of inequality.
