SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Labour Power, Invisible Hand, Thomas Robert Malthus
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Institution: a group of social positions that perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time. Exist to meet social need, narratives about how those needs should get met. Family, legal systems, stratification systems (how we distribute across societies) Products of human action- make them and reproduce them but once they exist, they take o(cid:290) the cha(cid:325)acte(cid:325) of objecti(cid:362)e facts; they beco(cid:289)e see(cid:290) as (cid:907)ho(cid:363) thi(cid:290)gs a(cid:325)e(cid:908) Stratification system: refers to a pattern of structured inequality in social rewards or life chances. Some distribution of rewards across people, some have less and some have more. Investigating stratification involves asking how these rewards are distributed across groups or categories of people (why did they get ahead because they are apart of certain groups) If stratification is the result of systematic processes that treat some kinds of people differently from others, it raises a host of moral and political questions.
