CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Temporary Work, Social Mobility, Status Attainment
6 Jun 2018
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● In a communist society it’s possible to do one thing today and another tomorrow without
actually committing -Marx
● The gig economy is the collection of markets that match providers to consumers on a gig
basis in support of on-demand commerce. In the basic model, gig workers enter into a
formal agreement with on-demand companies to provide services to the company’s
clients
● Where is the gig economy in Marxist model of classes?
● Precariat → people who are precariously employed
● Media influences perception of jobs
Status Attainment Theory
● Asks how people are sorted into class positions and what drives intergenerational
mobility
○ Social origins are fateful (family SES, peer networks, schooling)
○ Key: assumes that intergenerational mobility is predictable
○ Positivist analysis
Critique of Status Attainment Theory
● Only focuses on mobility or movement between positions
● Provides few answers as to why and how the positions themselves would change over
time
○ Not an idle question now…
Cultural Theories of Stratification
● Growing recognition that class is rooted in group-based cultural tastes and lifestyles
○ Class → wealth or property
○ Cultural sophistication serves as kind of property
○ Tastes become class markers that ‘classify’ one over time
○ Dominant groups use cultural capital to exculede others
○ Pierre bordeau
Frpm “People Like Us”
● Who decides whta’s in good taste?
● Difficulties of trying to move up or down ladder
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Document Summary
In a communist society it"s possible to do one thing today and another tomorrow without actually committing -marx. The gig economy is the collection of markets that match providers to consumers on a gig basis in support of on-demand commerce. In the basic model, gig workers enter into a formal agreement with on-demand companies to provide services to the company"s clients. Precariat people who are precariously employed. Asks how people are sorted into class positions and what drives intergenerational mobility. Social origins are fateful (family ses, peer networks, schooling) Key: assumes that intergenerational mobility is predictable. Only focuses on mobility or movement between positions. Provides few answers as to why and how the positions themselves would change over time. Growing recognition that class is rooted in group-based cultural tastes and lifestyles. Cultural sophistication serves as kind of property. Tastes become class markers that classify" one over time. Dominant groups use cultural capital to exculede others.
