SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ascribed Status, Social Stratification, Victorian Era
1 Aug 2016
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Embedded into our daily routines, affect the lives we live. Along with this comes the status that we enjoy. We make assumptions about others on the basis of their relative class and standing. Connected to class/status are assumptions of levels (the notion) of power. Plays a role in almost everything in society - status, job, education (who ends up in university) One of the best predictors of who is going to do well in school = social status! (ex. people in trouble with law are often from families of lower social status) In modern times, the power associated with social class is much more indirect and subtle than it was in previous centuries - ex. how people in. Britain are more aware of social class (ex. Upper class in victorian era) even today than people in america. However, social class does matter here in canadian society.
