Inequality Flashcards
Dimensions or variation
1) degree of specialization
2) functional emphasis
3) degree of inequality
4) opportunity
5) degree of solidarity
Job Characteristics
1) pleasant vs unpleasant
2) talent or training required
3) how functionally important is it
3 Different Resources
1) material(income)
2) emotional(love)
3) symbolic(prestige)
Class
Position associated with market position and life opportunities
Status
has to do with honor prestige, not economic
Absolute Poverty
doesn’t have minimum resources to survive
Relative Poverty
personal experience, compared to surroundings
Identification(Race)
What you subjectively identify yourself as
Categorization(Race)
how others categorize you as
Prejudice
An attitude about a group
Schemas
Mental short cuts, categories
Stigma
Mark of disgrace associated with particular circumstance, quality, or person
Implicit Prejudice
Prejudice can be activated without consciously knowing can influence our decisions
Individual Discrimination
Excluding someone
Institutional Discrimination
Part of organization discriminates against some group of people
Mechanisms of Geographic Inequality
1) Routine Activities(schools/location)
2) Social Capital(resources embedded in social relationships)
3) Institutional Resources(child centers, family support)
4) Collectively Efficacy(mutual trust)
Contact Theory
Best way of reducing prejudice is to get people to interact with one another
Foraging Societies
Material resources well distributed; 100% of population producing food
Agrarian Societies
95% of population producing food
Industrialized Societies
More occupations; 5% of population involved with producing food
Post Industrialized Societies
Explosion of occupational differences
Gender wage gap caused by the following;
1) woman paid less for same work
2) occupational segregation
3) segregation within occupations; different responsibilities within same job
