1. What are life chances, and how do income and wealth affect them?
- According to Gilbert (2015), Max Weber came up with this term of life chances in order to explain how the good things that happen in an individual’s lives is determined by their class position in society. Gilbert explains that income and wealth have a significant impact on life chances, but focuses specifically on the “what if” situations—because wealth provides individuals with a safety crutch when say, they lose their job(s), their life chances are protected from dropping from wealthy/power class, to a lower class. An interesting point Gilbert makes is that, most families do not have an emergency fund or safety crutch built to where living without one or two paychecks is not an option.
2. What are industrialization and post industrialization? How did one change from the other affect work and class-based inequalities?
- Industrialization is the transition from society being a agriculturally based society to one that is an industrial society; whereas, according to Gilbert (2015), postindustrial society is where the …show more content…
Gilbert also points out a term that is often accurate in terms of one’s social standing, which is intergenerational mobility or how the placement and or movement of an individual in the class position is dependent upon where their parents stand in the class system. Another term, intragenerational mobility, is one’s own ability to move up or down in the class system. What are the factors? Gilbert cites a study from Featherman (1979) where an individual’s family background, education, and socioeconomic status contribute to the child (said to be sons) socioeconomic status. The study concludes that family background has an influence on education and thus career success, background helps through means of connections the ability to get a job, and so
- According to Gilbert (2015), Max Weber came up with this term of life chances in order to explain how the good things that happen in an individual’s lives is determined by their class position in society. Gilbert explains that income and wealth have a significant impact on life chances, but focuses specifically on the “what if” situations—because wealth provides individuals with a safety crutch when say, they lose their job(s), their life chances are protected from dropping from wealthy/power class, to a lower class. An interesting point Gilbert makes is that, most families do not have an emergency fund or safety crutch built to where living without one or two paychecks is not an option.
2. What are industrialization and post industrialization? How did one change from the other affect work and class-based inequalities?
- Industrialization is the transition from society being a agriculturally based society to one that is an industrial society; whereas, according to Gilbert (2015), postindustrial society is where the …show more content…
Gilbert also points out a term that is often accurate in terms of one’s social standing, which is intergenerational mobility or how the placement and or movement of an individual in the class position is dependent upon where their parents stand in the class system. Another term, intragenerational mobility, is one’s own ability to move up or down in the class system. What are the factors? Gilbert cites a study from Featherman (1979) where an individual’s family background, education, and socioeconomic status contribute to the child (said to be sons) socioeconomic status. The study concludes that family background has an influence on education and thus career success, background helps through means of connections the ability to get a job, and so