Reminder that on tuesday November 8 will be Quiz 4, and the Revist will be due November 15. (And don't forget to vote on Tuesday!)
During class we played the Sociologist's version of Monopoly. Be prepared to articulate how that activity demonstrated social class. Also, think about how social class, race, and gender all affect social life (see for example page 227).
Additionally, you should know the following terms; what the term means and how it is important to our sociological understanding:
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE
STRUCTURED INEQUALITY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLOSED & OPEN SYSTEMS OF STRATIFICATION
DISTINQUISH BETWEEN CASTE, ESTATE AND CLASS SYSTEMS
CLASS (SOCIAL CLASS)
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
How does Karl Marx explain social stratification? What does Max Weber ("Vay-ber") argue accounts for social stratification?
SOCIAL MOBILITY
VERTICAL MOBILITY (TYPES OF)
STRUCTURAL MOBILITY
*Family will also be part of the upcoming quiz.
Here are the power point slides on:
Work & Family
Family Graph
Social Structure: Relatively permanent patterns of interaction and relationships found within a society.
It is important to our social understanding because it it shows the way we communicate with each others and how it is something that not just one person is doing but it's something that everyone is doing as a society is doing.
Posted by: Mary Xiong at November 7, 2005 1:39 AMI think, why people have such social class, power, and inquality becasue it's from our experience. I think sometime people usually doing by their parents and grandparent expectation too.
Opportunity Structure: Circumstances that provide chances for people to acquire valued goods, services and resources.
Posted by: Bula at November 7, 2005 12:39 PMSocial Inequality: A recurrent pattern of differential access to goods and services and the things that count in a society.
Posted by: Christy Marshall at November 7, 2005 6:21 PM