SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4,5,10,11,16,17,20: Social Cost, Vestment, Understanding Media

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Social inequality: is the long term existence of significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups. Stratification: refers to the system by which groups or individuals are ranked: societies are stratified on the basis of gender, age, class, ethnicity, caste etc. vs. Status: your rank or position within a hierarchy: ascribed status: characteristics that are assigned to us at birth and are largely unchangeable (skin colour, gen- der, disability, age, achieved status: achievements earned by performance (university degree, occupations, ) Ascribed status matter less in societies which have open stratification systems (usually in a society that says we are born the same, we have the same ability to achieve ). Stratification: open vs closed systems (not everyone has the same access to the same resources. : closed: based on ascribed status (very little or no social mobility, almost impossible to climb up the hierarchy). You are born into that status and you cannot leave that status.