CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Stratification, Elite, Bourgeoisie
30 Oct 2017
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Discipline : disciplinary techniques=mode of monitoring, examining, and regimenting individuals throughout entire society, examples: timetables, regimes, repetition, surveillance, tests, check-ups, leads to docile citizens, constant feeling of being watched. Wealth vs income: wealth: (total assets minus total debts); family"s individual net worth, what you fall back on . Income: (money received by a person for work) In any case income gap increasing, wages outside top 1% stagnating and income insecurity growing. Poor: what defines poverty, poverty line (2014)= ,036 for family of 2 adults, 2 children, poverty in the us: 14. 8, focus= day to day survival; poverty harmful to safety and health. Types of mobility: horizontal, a group of individual transitioning from 1 social status to another on the same. Structural mobility: mobility inevitable from changes in the economy, large scale change in structure of economy e. g, decline in farm labor bc of increase in technology/equipment, mobility due to large scale economic change.
