SOC 656 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Stratification, Social Mobility, Social Class

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 656
• Professor: Janna Eggebeen

Document Summary

Lecture 4: distinction dress and social class. Income; education level; occupation: reputational method, what other people think of another"s class. Subjective method: how people self-identify in class, difference in class, upper taste (fashion, etc. , middle - education, the work you do, money you earn. Lower all about money: social mobility / immobility, meritocracy, social system in which success and status in life depend primarily on talents, abilities and effort. Social mobility: agency that an individual has to change their class status, clothing plays a big part, dandy-ism (fine clothing, great gatsby curve, measures the relationship between intergenerational social immobility in several countries around the world, david-moore thesis. Incentives, rewards, compensation: rewards are not equal, culture of poverty, the idea that the poor are not like us. Women and children: when you combine your sex (male or female) with other factors (age, race, ethnicity) will intersect to increase the likely hood of being improvised, the poorest in canada are indigenous women.