social strat

• functionalists and social stratification

  -say its good since we need poverty as motivation to keep people working hard

  -davis and moore say it performs role allocation
• marxist and social stratification

  -unfair since not everyone can suceed

  -bourgeoisie exploit the proletariat
• feminists and social strat

  argue it is sexist
• weber and social stratification

  -argues its about market position and status important

  -eg plumber paid better than nurse ,but nurse has higher status
• social differentiation

  differences between us .Can be based on appearance and gender
• life chances

  the oppurtunities people have to succeed.Things that affect it are social class and gender
• formal power

  those who are in charge of society

  -they use formal agencies of social control
• informal power

  -comes with status -eg boss and workers

  -they use informal social control
• coercion

  using threat or force to get what you want
• authority 


  persuading people to do what you want
• traditional authority

  based on history and customs

  eg queen
• charismatic authority

  based on personality

  eg ghandi
• rational legal authority

  based on their selection to a role

  eg headteacher
• goldthorpe and lockwood

  say working class becoming like middle class
• devine

  says working class hasnt changed and held on to most traditional values
• pierre Bourdieu

  said one of the reasons higher social classes were advantaged was cultural capital
• old boys network

  top jobs given to those who went to same school as their bosses
• castles and kosack

  -argue that racism helps capitalism by dividing the working class
• medical model of disability

  views disability as a bad thing to be dealt with
• social model of disability

  says that it caused by society placing barriers for those people
• absolute poverty

  when people meet basic needs
• relative poverty

  when people are poor compared to others in their society
• townsend

  -made his own deprivation index
• cycle of deprivation

  when poor adults have children ,their childeren more likely to suffer as well
• culture of poverty

  where poor people have attitudes to keep them in poverty like fatalism
• new right -charles murray

  -underclass

  -says we should reduce benefits so people are forced to take responsibility
• social exclusion

  where people left out of society so they have low self esteem