SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Stratification, Social Mobility, Proletariat

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: The Staff

Document Summary

8/10 of the poorest have 7% of america"s wealth between them. Ceo makes 380 times more than the average worker. Social stratification is hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their. Life chances refers to the extent to which individuals have access to important societal. Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification resources such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health care system to another. Intergenerational mobility is the social movement experienced by family. Intragenerational mobility is the social movement of individuals within their own members from one generation to the next lifetime controlled by others for the purpose of economic or sexual exploitation. Slavery is an extreme form of stratification in which some people are owned or. The caste system is a system of social inequality in which people"s status is permanently determined at birth based on their parent"s ascribed characteristics.