SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Edmontonian, Frankfurt School, Social Inequality

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

Document Summary

Example of inequality: income stratification: when a system of social inequality is based on a hierarchy of groups. In times of danger, affluent and powerful have a better chance of survival the criminal justice system. Children and youth under 18 are particularly vulnerable to conditions of poverty. The following statistics outline risk factors and the realities of youth poverty in canada. Markers of social difference: gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, age, citizenship/immigration status, education. Power (according to lemert: the means by which social structures do the not-exactly-fair work of people, power works in some obvious ways; however, sometimes it is very difficult to see power. It is not easy to look social structures in the straight in the eye, because one is likely to see social things that stir the deeper feelings of social discomfort (p. 94) Critical perspectives and methods: kimberle crenshaw, intersectionality, dorothy smith, feminist standpoint theory, michel foucault, foucauldian discourse analysis.