Lecture 6 - Social Inequality Flashcards
What is Intersectionality?
• Intersectionality is the belief that oppressions are interlinked and cannot be solved alone
What is Resurrection City 1968?
• Resurrection City 1968 – poor people’s campaign fought for economic justice and was a multicultural effort to alleviate poverty regardless of race
What is Meritocracy?
political philosophy stating that power should be vested in individuals almost exclusively based on ability and talent
What is Privilege?
• If oppression intersects, then so does privilege (advantages given to members of certain groups)
What is the Psychological Wage?
• W.E. Du Bois – The Psychological Wage: even though poor white people didn’t make much money, they earned a psychological wage, which came with a certain status and class
What is Settler Privilege?
• Settler Privilege – benefits that come from colonialism/unfair treaty process
What is Social Mobility?
• Movement within a stratified social system where boundaries between social strata are not rigid (where you can move between classes or occupational groups)
What is Ascribed Status?
• Ascribed Status – assigned at birth and includes race, gender, disability, and age
What is Achieved Status?
• Achieved Status – earned over the life course (meritocracy)
What did Karl Marx say about how society is best characterized?
• Society is best characterized by conflict (Marx)
Marx: Capitalism is split in to what two central classes?
o Bourgeoisie control the means of production
o Proletariat have only their labour to sell
What is Class Consciousness?
o Class Consciousness – awareness of workers’ shared interests and ability to react in those interests
According to Structural Functionalists (Durkheim), Social Stratification is described by…
Mechanical Solidarity
What does the Symbolic Interactionist perspective have on Social Stratification?
Status Symbols and conspicuous consuption
What is Conspicuous Consumption?
purchasing expensive goods and services in order to put them on display
