01:920:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Raoul Wallenberg, Erik Olin Wright, Social Stratification
11 Aug 2019
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Give an example of how power and social influence can play a significant role in defining and sanctioning deviant behavior. Popular musical artists with violent backgrounds of theft and murder influencing their fans (no construction of positive or negative behavior) Police getting away with brutality, violence, and murder of minorities because they were scared (not because they have power?) Those who helped jewish people hide from nazis in areas under german control and are booked back as heroes and deviants (good but those people were not in power positions unless you mean someone like raoul wallenberg) Fashion industry only including skinny models, thus showing that anyone who isn"t skinny. Learn about social stratification and the importance of social background in an individuals" chances for material success. Know the most influential theories of stratification- including those of karl marx, max. Know the class differences in u. s. society, what influences them and how they are defined and determined.
