SY101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ascribed Status, Social Status, Labour Power
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True/false: suicide rates are higher for females than males, false, deviance can only be negative, false. A position in a status hierarchy that is inherited or assigned; not an accomplishment set at birth. 3 sense of group membership, consciousness and identity. The denial of opportunities, generally available to all member of society, to some people because of their membership in a social category a regular and reoccurring part of everyday existence (laws, conventions, and customs). A social category, usually ethnically labeled, that occupies a subordinate rank in the hierarchy of a society. The ability to command resources and therefore control social situations, a determinant of social stratification. Prejudging people based upon characteristics they are assumed to share as members of a social category. It focuses on the systematic inequalities between groups of people, which arise out of unintended consequences of social processes and relationships. Social stratification and symbolic argues that society is stratified on the bases.
