SOC 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Inequality, Meritocracy, Intersectionality
6 Oct 2016
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Usually refers to relatively long-lasting differences among individuals or groups of people that have implications for individuals lives, especially for the rights & opportunities they experience and the rights or privileges they enjoy. System by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. Allows people to have a greater chance because of being in a different rank, Class, ethnicity, race, age, and gender sets of relations that are characterized by power and that are fundamental structured or organized. Power relations ability of individuals in social relationships to improve their will on others regardless of resistance. Women make an average of 78. 5 cents of every a man makes. The things you worry about changes as you age (e. g. 45 has different worries from 60 and 80) Structures of inequality that we discuss in class are patterns of advantage and disadvantage that are durable but penetrable: free will. The united nations universal declaration of human rights.
