SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Fact, Social Stratification, Social Inequality

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: La Torre Aurelie

Document Summary

A system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to relative social locations. Do you own the individual (master or slave: estate, caste (india) (slide 4, social class. Large group of people who rank similarly in terms of income & education. Talked about by karl marx and max weber. Marx = relational concept, economic (means of production) Ideology = beliefs that justify society"s social arrangements. Inequality = a difference of situation that is not considered a social problem.