SOC 153 Study Guide - Final Guide: Live X, Residential Segregation In The United States, Gang Leader

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Lippmann Stephen

Document Summary

Stratification- structured social inequality or, more specifically, systemic inequalities between groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processes and relationships- who gets what and why . Rousseau: believed mankind as naturally pure and good, believed society caused social problems, specifically private property, social equality- a condition whereby no differences in wealth, powers, prestige, or status based on non-natural conventions exists. Hegel: believed in the master-slave or master-servant dialectic, dialectic- a two-directional relationship, one that goes both ways. Class differentiation is the crucial determinant of social, economic, and political inequality: two classes: ruling and subject class. Equality of opportunity- the idea that everyone has an equal change to achieve wealth, social prestige, and power because the rules of the game, so to speak, are the same for everyone. Equality of condition- the idea that everyone should have an equal starting point.