stratification
- Stratification refers to structured social inequality ideology of competitive individualism
- the idea in america that if everyone just works hard enough you too can create wealth, you too can share in the american dream
- how this belief system upholds / justifies economic inequality role of ideoloy davis moore thesis
- goes along with functionalism, says inequality is good because it pushes people to do a really good job and get a better education, so because you get paid more to do better jobs, we will have the best people doing the most important jobs culture of poverty
- Generational poverty means that your culture, your way of life, has not provided you the skills to move up
- you dont know how to keep money, you dont know how to handle debt cultural capital
- what you know social capital
- who you know types of jobs
- different social classes have different types of jobs, so know what that might look like income thresholds for income
- how much income to be the middle class
- how much income to be the top 1% caste vs class
- caste vs class vs slavery / genocide
- different types of stratification systems structural discrimination intersectionality
- understanding you cant understand someone just because of their race / social class, we are hugely multifaceted individuals, and so we must look at how the venn diagram overlaps for an individual. she is a woman, but she is also white, so shes a white woman. so thats very different from the experience of a black woman status inconsistency
- in her day, preachers had lots of prestige and power but did not make lots of money. lower class economically, but upper class for power. inconsistent race vs ethnicity color blindness
- potentially a form of racism cultural appropriation Minority group
- does not mean a fewer number of, means having less power. South Africa in apartheid, there were a much larger number of black South Africans than there were white South Africans. Yet, white south africans had the power. which means black south africans were the minority situational ethnicity
- sometimes ethnicity is out here, visible to all. sometimes its our ethnicity but we are not performing it. her friend Mary was irish american. most of the year, you would not hear about her being irish american. on st paddys day, she was suuper irish american. myth of race vs reality of race gender vs sex sexuality patriarchy
- system in which not only do men have more power over women, things considered masculine are valued more than things considered feminine. Crying is weak, and feminine. That represents a system of patriarchy. wage gap
- average what women make vs average what men make on the dollar wihchi s typically how its presented
- maybe women make 78 cents for every dollar that a man makes passing
- performance where you try to pass yourself off as not belonging to a certain group, for fear of stigma. You act in a way where you wont be associated with that group membership, because you are afraid that the prejudice associated with that group membership will be placed on you second shift
wont meet thursday because so we can take the exam