What's in book 2

• Water what did he say about stratification!
• Structual perspective Crop-down
• Social action pespection CRotton
• Pictor argued stratification was more complex
• Existentialists or functionalists made out me needed to consider the meaning people places their class, states and former in society
• Interactionalist weber and market position
• Class is more than your occupation


  Class is about your market position - how much you are able to earn
• Some jobs are saluted more highly than others
• Identity is who you think you are how you think about yourself, and how others view you
• Weber believed classes, status and power make up our society
• A person's lifestyle may affect their status in Kims or how market position identity social power
• Galration water what is what for understanding complex society our many things affect Scharles our life
• Functionalism, created by smile Durkheim, believed that society works together to make society a better place
• Stratification is seeing the qualities and inequalities in society as layers. For example, the lower class and higher class
• Work gender gap only accepted into Female Jobé Family - Different toys women treated differently Education - more male subjects Media - 5 stereotypes Chow me portray then and women 2 Religion - Although social class and ethnicity also experience major differences in life, exminist's see the most important inequality is thank that exist between men and women
• Feminists argue that women are generally lower down
• What is power?
• People in the UK have become much more aware of social differences in recent years
• Sociology has changed as a result by this, but has also helped to make changes
• Important aspects ay sociology

  • Gender, ethnicity, social class, disability, sexuality
• Informal sources of power


  • Families, Friends, Work, School
• Formal sources of power


  • Police, Prison, Social Services
• Social differentiation is about the differences between different groups in society (class, age, gender etc)
• Main aspects of identity that impact life chances

  • Race and ethnicity, social class, Pescual orientation, bisexuality
• The word authority means having the power there are huge differences in the level the right for sine orders or make decisions authentically that people have in the UK
• Traditional Rational - legal and authority
• There are some links between age in the UK, for example an old person is expected to be in blage and make decisions, e-g king chal
• Gender was also the linked to authority, because in pictorien times, men more expected to the the head say the gamily Rich or poor
• M.AX meter believed that there was three says in which people can sair authority, these are... Traditional authority comes from tradition in custom - Ches
• Gonder was also the linked to authority, because in pictorien times, men more expected to the the head say the gamily Rich or poor
• M.AX meter brelieved that there was three says in which people can sair authority
• Ways people can sair authority

  • Traditional authority comes from tradition in custom
  • Charismatic Authority comes from personality
  • Rational-legal authority comes from people legal son
• Examples of authority figures

  • King Charles / Royal family
  • Martin Luther King
  • Police Democracy Prime minister
• Dor me line in a classless society?
• Possible scenarios in a classless society

  • Bourgeoisie
  • Conjugal order
  • RASA
  • Comment observation
  • Masters Labretting
• Social class has a great effect on life chances
• Marxist sociologists argue that the inequality between classes is becoming more pronounced
• New right sociologists would not see the rise in inequality as a problem
• Income - the money a person gets every month to live in
• Marxist sociologists believe in something called the 'old boys club' or network