SOCI 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Redlining, Invisibility, Oscar Lewis
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Social stratification and social inequality: members of society are divided into groups and placed in a social hierarchy. Higher level groups enjoy more access to rewards and resources. Social inequality is the unequal distribution of wealth and power. 4 principles of stratification: it is a characteristic of society; it persists over generations; different societies use different characteristics to categorize themselves; and it is maintained through wide-spread shared beliefs. Enslaved through debt or warfare or criminality or kidnapping. Caste in south africa: apartheid system legal separation of racial groups that (cid:449)e(cid:396)e physi(cid:272)ally sepa(cid:396)ated f(cid:396)o(cid:373) ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396). (cid:862) epa(cid:396)ate (cid:271)ut e(cid:395)ual(cid:863). A(cid:271)olitio(cid:374) of the system in 1991- but slow progress and change. New patterns of class stratification are replacing rather than erasing patterns of racial stratification. Intersectionality: multiple dimensions of status and inequality intersect to shape who we are and how we live (race, gender, socioeconomic states, etc. all effect our lives).
