SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Unimodality, Kuznets Curve, Erik Olin Wright
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Stratification in big picture of a system share three common characteristics: The rankings apply to social categories of people who share a common characteristic. The rankings matter for people"s opportu(cid:290)ities a(cid:290)d life cha(cid:290)ces. The rankings endure over time, changing very slowly. For a given person or group, these tend to track together, but not always. There is a logic to these systems, work on one or another and have effects in the others. Example: class system works on economic logic but also has effects in status and power. Caste system is durable because it involves all three, status, economic and power. Weber also paid attention to class, but he understood it somewhat less rigidly than. Not based o(cid:290) fi(cid:368)ed positio(cid:290)s, but (cid:907)life cha(cid:290)ces i(cid:290) the eco(cid:290)o(cid:289)ic (cid:289)arketplace(cid:908) Different kinds of resource matter for this: income, wealth, skills, education. Helps to think about class distinctions in the modern us.
