SOCI10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gender Pay Gap, Knowledge Economy, List Of One Tree Hill Characters

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI10001
• Professor: Barbara Barbosa Neves

Document Summary

We have an everyday understanding of these topics. We classify our subjects on the basis of gender, ethnicity, age as well as class. We classify ourselves, the way we classified ourselves as students versus lecturer. You just embody it, it doesn"t become salient. Human beings are classifying and classified beings. Hierarchical system upper middle low nobility gentry etc. Impersonal membership, like if you are egyptian, we have this shared thing, you belong to a class bc of your material conditions. Like the god"s plan video where he unconsciously plays on our assumptions on high and low, he"s up in the department store with his friend and goes down to the lower level to help the commoners . The way we think of the world is deeply embedded. He stratified society - strata where you have upper class middle class etc.