Inequality & Stratification Sociology 1301: Introduction to Sociology Week Twelve

Equality 5 Types of Equality Social Equality Ontological Equality Equality of Opportunity Equality of Condition Equality of Outcome

Inequality Social Inequality: the result of uneven access to resources. Stratification: structured social inequality

Conflict Theory Review of Conflict Theory… AKA Social Conflict Theory/Social Conflict Perspective How does this relate to inequality & socialization?

Theories of Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Inequality is bad Adam Ferguson & John Millar: Inequality is good Thomas Robert Malthus: Inequality is necessary to survival George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Inequality brings us together and will ultimately go away

Types of Social Stratification Estate System (politically based) Caste System (religion based) Class System (economic based) Status Hierarchy System (prestige based) Elite-Mass Dichotomy System (governing elite)

Capital Economic Capital (money) Social Capital (relationships) Cultural Capital (knowledge)

Social Justice vs. Diversity Diversity: the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness. Social Justice: the process of examining the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society and the goal of equality. What does this have to do with Sociology?

Privilege & Oppression Privilege: unearned access to resources (social power) only readily available to some people as a result of their advantaged social group membership. Oppression: the grouping of discrimination, personal bias, bigotry, and social prejudice in a complex web of relationships and structures that shape most aspects of life in our society.

Works Cited Adams, M., Bell, L.A., Griffin, P. (Eds.) (2007). Teaching for diversity and social justice (2nd Ed.). NY: Routledge. Conley, D. (2008). You may ask yourself: An introduction to thinking like a sociologist. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Massey, G. (Ed.) (2006). Readings for sociology (5th Ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company.