Flashcards : Understanding Social Inequality and Gender Roles — 24 cartes

Necessary for role allocation and social stability.

Argued stratification ensures the most qualified fill important roles.

System rewarding talent and effort, promoting social mobility.

Hierarchical arrangement motivating individuals and maintaining order.

Encourages effort to attain higher-status roles.

Welfare dependency creates underclass; emphasizes individual responsibility.

Cycle of poverty due to welfare reliance, per Murray.

Friedman; markets maximize resource allocation.

Welfare dependency and limited social mobility.

Owners of production who exploit workers.

Working class selling labor for wages.

Value produced beyond wages, exploited by capitalists.

Reproduces class inequality via education/media.

Ruling ideas accepted as common sense.

Economic market position affecting life chances.

Social honor and prestige, often separate from class.

Political power influencing social position.

Roles stabilize society; men as breadwinners, women as caregivers.

Family provides emotional support, stabilizing male workers.

Women choose lower-paid jobs due to childcare responsibilities.

Dismantling patriarchy to achieve equality.

Multiple inequalities (gender, race, class) intersecting.

Horizontal: job types; Vertical: hierarchy barriers like glass ceiling.

Transition stage preparing for adult roles.