Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Stratification, Primitive Communism, Marxism Today
5 Apr 2016
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Hierarchical arrangement of social groups based on their control over basic resources: ladder of categories. Creates persistent patterns of social inequality" perpetuated by the way in which wealth, power, and prestige are distributed and passed on from one generation to the next: unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. Caste system: born into a certain class. Basic principles: a trait of society, not just individual differences, persists over generations. Social mobility is a change in a person"s position in a hierarchy. Is universal, but variable regarding amount and type of inequality. The extent to which members of a society can change their socio- economic position. Horizontal mobility: gain or loss in position or income which does not produce change in one"s rank: no gain or loss. Vertical mobility: gain or loss in position that produces a change in one"s place in the socio- economic hierarchy: upward: gaining status, downward: losing status.
