SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Correlation And Dependence
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Measuring opportunity: widening inequality and declining social mobility in the us. ->collect data on sample-->can code each of them for what parents for living, race, ethnic background, national origin, occupation. ->can estimate statistically how the characteristics of the individual affected how the person ended up in the ranking. ->features of individuals that determine things about their outcomes. ->preoccupation has been with why some individuals make it, and others don"t. ->could be interested in how unequal society is. ->some papers showing that among the industrial societies, lots of inequality bad for everyone. ->downward mobility in wealth that is completely hereditary-->dividing up wealth into many pieces for each surviving child-->after many generations, lots of land becomes tiny pieces of land. ->dominant classes cannot maintain themselves without marrying into wealth (more wealth) ->more children-->get poorer and poorer, since keep on dividing wealth among the children. ->less and less land, more improved ways to farm, but too little land.
