HLTH352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Inequality, Filial Piety, Social Stratification

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH352
• Professor: Elena Neiterman

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Chapter 6: social structure, social inequality, and the life course. Introduction: as people engage in social relationships, they are assigned different amounts of power and status (unequal). Ex. parent vs. child: mcmullin (2010) class, age, gender, ethnicity, and race are interlocking sets of power relations that structure social life and therefore contribute to and perpetuate social inequality across the life course. May also foster conflict across social groups. Age stratification perspective focuses on inequality, but minimizes the interaction of age with other systems of inequality. Political economy and feminist perspectives focus on power relations in society, but devote less attention to the interaction of age with other dimensions of power. Exchange theory is now beneficial in accounting for intergenerational transfers at the societal level. The life course perspective can bridge some of these elements, but it is difficult to test multi-dimensional theories.