SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Ascribed Status, Social Stratification
16 Feb 2017
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Social class, inequality and status are embedded into our daily routines: how old you are, race, age. We make assumptions about others on the basis of their relative class and standing. Power relations are often muddied by interconnections with other patterns of inequality social factors such as gender, race, and ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, and immigrant status play important mediating roles. According to most sociologists, there are two basic types of status: ascribed, and achieved: ascribed: is assigned at birth and includes race, gender, disability, and age. Cant decide for yourselves: achieved: earned over the life course. Movie clip: about aboriginal people and their struggles: lack of opportunity, poverty, what role racism plays. Argued that society is best characterized by conflict: a distinguishing feature of capitalism is that it is spilt between two central classes: the bourgeoisie and proletariat.
