SOC263H5 Chapter 1: SOC 263 Chapter 1
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Some dimensions include: race, ethnicity, religion. These are frequently so bound together that it is hard to disentangle. Having access to the right schools, financial resources, business and professional contacts, and particular opportunities seems to play a large role in turning hard work into hard cash. Sociological imagination: the ability to see and understand the interrelationship of personal troubles and experiences with larger social problems and changes. Intersections of race, class, and gender in the united states. Karl marx and friedrich engels contended that the first class division may have come along lines of gender and age as men began to treat women and children as their personal property. Ma(cid:454) (cid:449)e(cid:271)e(cid:396)"s th(cid:396)ee pa(cid:396)t di(cid:448)isio(cid:374: class, status (prestige, party (political power) Weber was interested in the organization of privilege and duty between men and women within the household and was particularly interested in cultural and religious differences. Race and gender were secondary to his analysis.
