SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gender Pay Gap, Social Stratification, Conspicuous Consumption
Document Summary
Status : socially defined position in a group or society. Social differentiation: process by which different statuses develop. Organization (characterized by patterned relationship; structure groups) Social stratification: system of structure social inequality. Class: social structural position groups hold relative to the resource of society. Holds people in society in a hierarchy. Trait of society, not reflection of individual differences. Involves both inequality and beliefs as well. Class is only one basis for stratification. Conspicuous consumption: buying and using products to make a statement about social position (budget, personal taste) Sedimentation of racial inequality: passing down wealth disparities between generation (debts) Structural discrimination: mortgage rates, housing costs, de factor segregation. Myth of the model minority: obscures obstacles to success by asian americans and can place the blame on other minorities, even with different histories. Age: children most likely to be poor (16% in poverty)
