Social Inequality

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Social Inequality

Discrimination

presented as motivated by other justifiable reasons

may not be open or explicitly stated

disqualify one group from opportunities

actual behavior towads another group

Stereotypes

treat communities like a single person with one trait

refuse to recognize variation among individuals

fix whole groups into homogeneous categories

Fixed and inflexible charecterisations of a group of people

Prejudices

positive or negative

do not change even with new information

not based on direct evidence

based on hearsay

held by members of one group towads another

Pre-concieved opinions or attitudes

Social Stratification

Supported by patterns of beliefs and idealogies

great social privilege--> strong support for stratification

Exists over Generations

social position is ascribed

inheretance of social resource

linked to family

Charecteristic of Society

this is not based on individual abilities

seen in categories of people

social resources unequally dristibuted

Social Resources

Educational Capital

Social Capital

Economic Capital