SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Donna Haraway, Double Jeopardy, Social Inequality
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Max weber people have unequal life chances: unequal opportunities to gain wealth, power and esteem, class you born in is likely to stay in it. Victim blaming: the tendency to see a person as the cause of their own misfortunes without considering how social circumstances might cause these problems. Very unlikely to slip into poverty if born in a family that never experienced it. Social inequality: the hierarchical organization of a society, with certain group privileged over others this places competition between different groups. Natural difference are made into social inequalities by assigning it meanings and values: ex. Clai(cid:373)i(cid:374)g pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s se(cid:454) o(cid:396) age dete(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)es (cid:449)hat the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e suppose to a(cid:272)t like. Social construction: the view people make up or construct our understanding of reality. Social inequality (cid:862)(cid:272)losed(cid:863) so(cid:272)ial p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373: action becomes limited to a single group, rest(cid:396)i(cid:272)t (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) a(cid:374)d t(cid:455)pe of people (cid:862)(cid:395)ualified(cid:863) to speak, eventually all (powerful) groups see it as universal truth, other opinions are rejected, ex.
