SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Capital, Status Attainment

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCL 1101
• Professor: Laura Senier

Document Summary

Chart 4: petty bourgeois: artisan worker, proletariat: monotonous work, repetitious, 9-5 days, semi-autonomous: people for whom the work day may be varied, ex: college professors. Status attainment theory: positivist analysis: starts with grand sweeping propositions about social mobility and tries to test them with empirical data. Chart: parental ses: parental wealth, income, level of educations. Table 7. 2: changes in economy eroded agricultural sector. It is hard for subsequent generations to make more than one leap. If you do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork as a far(cid:373)er if you are a so(cid:374) of a far(cid:373)er, you are (cid:373)ore likely to (cid:449)ork i(cid:374) lo(cid:449)er manual than upper. Critique: does(cid:374)"t gi(cid:448)e us (cid:373)a(cid:374)y i(cid:374)sights as to (cid:449)hy those cha(cid:374)ges happe(cid:374)