Chapter 6; Stratification In Canada

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Slavery

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Extreme firm of legalized social inequality for individuals or groups

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Castes

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the hereditary of rank, usually religiously dictated that tend to be fixed and immobile.

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Social Classes

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its a system that is social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility.

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Functionalist View on Social Stratification

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- believes that stratified society is universal and that social inequality is necessary so that people will be motivated to fill functionally important positions

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Conflict View on Social Stratification: Karl Marx

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Social relations depend on who controls the primary mode of economic production

- he examined capitalism and forced on bourgeoisie (owns the means of production) and proletariat (workers)

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(D) Capitalism

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An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is accumulation of profits.

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Class Consciousness

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a subjective awareness of common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about social change.

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False consciousness

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An attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.

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Conflict View on Social Stratification: Ralf Dahrendorf

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- people are prone to conflict over between scarce resources such as wealth, status and power

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Conflict View on Social Stratification: Max Webers

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- insisted that no single characteristic totally defines a person's position.

- he identified three distinct components of stratification;

1. class; similar level of wealth and income

2. status: same prestige or lifestyle

3. power: ability to exercise our will over others

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Feminist View on Social Stratification

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Radical Feminist; stratification permeates society and creates a culture in which male valises and priorities prevail.

Liberal feminist; recognize the inequality but believe it can be fix by providing a female friendly environment

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Interactionist View on Social Stratification

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- views on a micro level

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Objective Method

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the measurement of social class views largely as statistical category

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Prestige

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refers to the respect and admiration that an occupation holds in society

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Esteem

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refers to the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation

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Absolute poverty

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refers to a minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to love below.

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Working poor

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an individual is one who works a minimum number of hours a year and whose family income falls below the LICO (Low-income cut-off)

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Relative poverty

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a floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.

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Life chances

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Opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favourable life experiences.

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Social mobility

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refers to movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.

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Open System

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implies that the position of each individual is influenced by person's achieved status

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Closed system

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Allows little or no possibility of moving up.

- ie. societies with a social placement of castles and salivary

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Horizontal Mobility

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A medical doctor who becomes a scientist moves from one social position to another of the same rank

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Vertical mobility

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- the movement from one social position to another of a different rank.

ie a person who was a journalist to a medical doctor.

- could also be a downward motion which the medical doctor becomes a journalist.

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Generational mobility

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involves changes in the social position of children relative to their parents

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Intragenerational mobility

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involves changes in social position with a person's adult life. A teacher -> School district's superintendent