SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Sociological Perspectives, Gini Coefficient, Corrado Gini
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Social animals: commonly have hierarchic social structures i. e. termites, bee"s: queen, king, soldier, worker. Wolves: hierarchy with alpha male and female on top. Animal kingdom we are most similar to bonobos. Very peaceful, egalitarian, negotiate conflict = called hippie monkeys. Although we alwyays compare ourselves to tigers, wolves. Humans: also have hierarchic social relations but different from termites and wolves. Our rank isn"t biologically determined (like termites) Our social structure isn"t biologically determined (like wolves and termites) Creative intelligence: allows us to organize our social relations in a great variety of ways. These relations have some type of rank and hierarchy. Social and economic hierarchies matter for us, cause different categories. Stratification: term used to refer to the hierarchical organization of social relations. The structuring of social relations by layers. One group has greater power, influence, resources, prestige than another. Inequality: related to stratification, as stratification is a collective form of inequality. Manifestation of stratification in a given society.
