Introduction to Sociology/Statification

1.summary

Today, stratification often define in terms of socioeconomic status(or SES). SES is combine of three characteristics of individuals: power, property, and prestige. There is two dominant perspective about stratification, structural-functionalism and conflict theory. Stratification can analysis by three levels: Micro, Meso, Macro.



2.what was interesting/what did you learn

I learned about stratification. And also learned about inequality in United state and global scale. In the contents of wiki book, the question 'can we eliminate inequality?' was very interested.



3.discussion point

Among question for discussion, the question "Think about the jobs you have held. What factors do you think led you to getting the job and what factors affected the salary that you received?" was very interested. I want to discuss about this question.