SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality, Standpoint Feminism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

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Functionalist perspectives: assumption that society is a stable orderly system, the parts of society work together to promote solidarity and stability, everything in a society function to keep the society going. Symbolic interactionist perspectives: assumption that society is a sum of the interactions of individuals and groups, focuses on micro-level of analysis, s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s atte(cid:373)pt to e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)e people"s da(cid:455)-to-day interactions and their behaviour in groups. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, power. Some degree of social inequality characterizes every society. When a system of social inequality is based on a hierarchy of groups, sociologists refer to it as stratifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374): a stru(cid:272)ture"s ra(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g of e(cid:374)tire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society. The term income refers to salaries and wages. Wealth e(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)passes all of a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:373)aterial assets i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g la(cid:374)d, sto(cid:272)ks, a(cid:374)d other t(cid:455)pes of property.