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Sociology Lecture 4 | Fall 2021 | Doug Constance...

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Sociology Lecture 4 Social Inequality/Stratification 

Groups of people in structured hierarchies

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Layers of access to the good life (high class) o Born into these groups

Achieved status o Earned (class - car, neighborhoods)-> social mobility – both up and down) Ascribed status o Born (caste like slavery, India) Functionalism (Davis & Moore) -> stratification is natural (even good); always been winners/losers o Makes poor people work harder to be rich o Carrot (wealth) and stick o Scarce talents(wealth/white/men) are matched to societal needs (doctors, air plane pilots) Conflict (Marx) -> not about scarce talents; its about power; not given the opportunity Marx -> social class is about property(land); the access to the means of production (economy) - Bour -> Proletariat (okies went from boug (farm owners) to prol – migrant workers) - Owner -> work - Buying human labor

Weber (conflict) -> 3Ps Property, Prestige, Power - Millionaire sports entertainment, politicians, religious elites, - Oakies lost access to means of production and the 3 Ps (land, moved away from farm, no power with police) TSLV (theory surplus labor value) - LV (labor value) $20 o Everything is about labor value - Wages -> $10 - SLV -> $10 x 80 = 800 Sex / Gender - Sex: are the parts -> Biology (ascribed) - Gender is o achieved, o culture, o learned; o through the process of gender roles (socialization) -> toxic masculinity o social construction Sexism -

one sex is superior and the other is inferior differential treatment patriarchy -> men are the decision maker, boss, head of family matriarch -> women are the boss o egalitarian -> equals

Patterns of sexism 1. pink collar jobs (dead end, minimal benefits, teachers)

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2. glass ceiling 3. second shift (when a married women has to take care of the kids while the men watches sports or TV -> 2 jobs) Feminism - liberal feminist -> rights under law (most of the class are liberal feminist -> power is problem) - socialist feminist -> reproduction of capitalism mode of production (men are bougie, females are proletariat; capitalism is problem) - radical feminist -> separatists; men-hater -> they want men to be castrated (men are problem) Multicultural - black woman; intersectionality Waves of feminist movement - 1890 – 1920s –> voting rights - 1940s – 1960s –> equal right to work & reproductive rights (birth control) - 2000s – child care Beauty Myth -

A women can never be too thin Damaging to women Society teaches women to be measured by being pretty Prize men by being rich Extremely disciplined – attentive to men Teaches men to possess women

Marx’s View of Stratification Capitalists

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 own and control means of production  achieve wealth thru capital Workers  work for wages  vulnerable to displacement by cheap labor Upper Class  the upper class is divided by upper-upper class and the lower-upper  old money – upper-upper  new money – lower-upper o American Dream  Wealth is more stratified than income Prestige Scale  Highest status jobs dominant by women – nurse/secondary school teacher  Highest status blue collar job – police officer Poverty      

Relative poverty Absolute poverty Culture of poverty – in the south Child Poverty is high in Texas US is the most stratified county in the world If you are poor, you are lazy

Race and Ethnicity Important sociology, not important biologically

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Type of racist Prejudice Discrimination Norms of racism bigot yes yes Supports Timid bigot Yes Not resist Not Yes Yields Fair weather liberal All weather Not No Oppose liberal - Racial group -> biological difference (color, hair, eyes, environmental adaptations) - Ethnic group -> cultural differences o Customs, religion, - Minority group -> o Bio/cul differences o Usually fewer in numbers o Less power - Racism -> belief that one race is superior to others - Ethnicism -> belief that one ethnic group is better than others - Dominant group -> WASPs - Subordinate group -> not in the dominant group - Prejudice -> attitude - Discrimination -> action that negatively impacts another person; limit quality of life; deny a job - Institutional discrimination -> embedded in the working society o Not voting, abortion, - Stereotyping -> generalization about a whole group that ignore individual differences 5 Peeps (must be handwritten, who they are, why they are important, 1 paragraph each, how they lived and died, how society treated them,) 1. Medgar Evers 2. Angela Davis 3. Ruben “Hurricane” Carter 4. Leonard Peltier 5. Che Guerarrg

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Patterns of Racism -

Segregation -> physical separation Assimilation -> all old differences disappear Accommodation -> keep some of the old ways Genocide -> systematically kill them Pluralism -> value all races and cultures Expulsion -> pushing you out/forcefully make you leave

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GOP it becomes a patriarchy to matriarchy

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Sensitive new age guy (SNAG)

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