SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cultural Capital, Machinist
22 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Measuring opportunity: widening inequality and declining social mobility in the u. s. Introduction: sociologists defined field around inequality and stratification, beginning to be superseded by economists bc they have better data, uc berkeley has entire social security data, standard terminology and questions of stratification literature, ongoing and important field. How equal/unequal positions in society are (i) (ii) mobility can be different/same in unequal/equal societies. What time? (recession, boom, depression: answer: measuring exchange mobility (fairness): in occupational status, blau and duncan the american occupational structure, mobility table - distribution of sons" occupation by fathers" occupation a) b) Sons = all men surveyed (no matter age or occupation) What if there are unmeasured aspects of people that determine outcomes: correlation matrix from, everything"s correlated with everything else (1) your occupational status and father"s education (2) your education and father"s first job etc. 440 (4) u respondent"s education correlation to y occ in 1962 .
