SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Feedback, Status Attainment, Socioeconomic Status
6 Jan 2020
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Less focused on how the hierarchy is constructed and more focused on how people becom within it. Social class: a group of people who share the same relative status and resources in a given. Socioeconomic status: our social and economic statuses - how much money and education as our occupational standing. Social mobility: upward or downward change in ses overtime. Survey highschool seniors to assess educational plans for the future. Results: parents class background impacted outcomes through school performance for the future. Initial family class background can have a snow-ball effect. Focus on how much our occupations/jobs can influence our personalities and senses of se. Studied long term effects of social class position on values. Feedback loop through which class influences values, values influence type of job. Focus on 3 elements of work predicated to influence the development of personal v of supervision, routinization of work and complexity of work. 1964 survey of 3101 american men of legal employment ago.
