SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Santa Barbara City College, Pew Research Center, Class Consciousness
Document Summary
Individuals need to be motivated by money, prestige. Stratification enables those at the top to develop their talents and prevents those at the bottom form doing so. Stratification: how people end up with different levels of wealth, power in society. Global stratification: countries with different levels of wealth and power. What country you"re born in and your life chances. Poverty, healthcare, women"s rights, economic development, education, environment, etc. Awareness of your position, collective awareness of a social class. Income and wealth passed to future generations. Measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1, where 0 represents perfect equality, with everyone having the exact same income, and 1 represents perfect inequality, with one person having all income. Life chances and achieving the american dream through hard work. Life chances the relative likelihood that individuals will have access to the opportunities and benefits that the society values. Compare children"s life chances when they are born into homes with different incomes.
