#social stratification

[northwxrds]

conflict theory: 🙂‍↕️🫡🗣️👍😋💯

structural functionalism: ☝️🤔🤨🫤😞

symbolic interactionism: 🤪👥💅👯‍♀️🌺🌈🟧

[alwaysbewoke]

[redshift-13]

Should wealth entitle you to favorable treatment under the law, to getting away with it (whatever it is), to a social system that lays laurels on your wealth and believes as an axiom of fundamental social reality that you've earned it all through your exceptionalism?

What happens when the mythology and privileges of wealth status face serious challenge?

[nyx3927]

In medieval societies, social stratification was very rigid and prevalent.

Handmaidens and manservants (pulled from the peasantry) were around nobles but they had very strict rules on their behavior. And they would never interact with nobles as if they were on the same level.

Ladies in waiting and gentlemen in waiting were children from lesser nobility or third, fourth children of higher nobility. They were closer to equal interactions but they still deferred to the noble they were attached to.

So, for Merlin BBC, we can see that they still enforce strict social stratification and expectations of behavior. Merlin was expected to defer to Arthur and was punished if he didn’t at first.

Then time passed, and Arthur stopped requiring him to defer, and didn’t punish him for being sassy back. He still joked about Merlin deferring, but it was with the expectation that he never would and Arthur was fine with that.

In this type of society maybe 3 types of people could do that to a prince who is heir apparent without public punishment. 1) the royal family 2) the spouse of the prince 3) a favored concubine. Obviously, Merlin is neither part of the royal family nor Arthur’s spouse.

Everyone in the society knows these things. So, it is likely that a lot of people thought that Merlin was a favored concubine. Which in some cases can be a more powerful position than that of a spouse.

[everydayanth]

Just a friendly reminder because I’m watching documentaries today and it’s hitting me pretty hard:

Poverty is not a thing to go through that develops character. 

Most of us didn’t steal even though we had to. We went to bed drinking a shit ton of water so we could fall asleep and woke up hungry, your thief isn’t #relatable.

We’re not lazy, we’re working endlessly and then burned out and then facing the existential reality that we have no power to make our lives different because we are trapped in a wheel. Every time you save up enough money, someone else wants it - rent increases, healthy food is expensive, reliable public transportation is nonexistent, you have medical issues to catch up on. It feels like you’re always going to be behind and there’s nothing you can do and no one that cares.

We’re often scared. Our lives are held together by one tightly woven thread and if any single thing pulls too tightly, another has to give, there is no slack. We are often taught it’s our fault, we deserve it, or we cannot beat the system that is against us, and so do not ask our rich friends for help, ignore many problems, and hide our anger and shame when we begin to participate in the levels of society that mock us without understanding, be it language, ability, or general ignorance of privilege. People grow sensitive about things, prideful about what they will be able to do someday with arbitrary goals. Some people want to fit into that dress others want to open a bank account with a feeling of success instead of dread.

A protagonist has to develop from learning about the world, not simply surviving it, especially if it’s all they’ve known. They have to make choices and have emotions and experiences; oh no, I’m poor and now I’m not, I’m such a strong individual who isn’t like other girls isn’t enough. Thank you for trying to represent poverty, but you have to actually talk to people about their lives. We have to do better or the rigid structural agenda is never going to become more functional because the only access to actual context that many people higher up in the system have to poverty is through entertainment. 

If the tone of a show or a book is gawking at poverty and romanticizing it, it’s probably not written by people who have experienced it. If, however, it simply exists around it and the audience is left hollow and cold at the revelation, well, then we’re getting a hell of a lot closer to understanding each other. 

[whatifsandspheres]

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

[angiestudies]

¿Qué opináis sobre la igualdad de oportunidades? ¿Hasta qué punto crees que se lleva a la práctica?

Cosas que tengo que hacer entre 24 y 25 NOV:

🔘📝Práctica de educación

🔘👁📝Tema 9 Kerbo

🔘👁📝Tema 10 Kerbo

🔘👁📝Práctica historia

🔘👁📝Trabajo 1

⚪️👁📝 Trabajo 2

⚪️👁Libro educación

⚪️🔎Investigar trabajo inserción laboral juvenil

[arcticdementor]

Abdel Abdellaoui, David Hugh-Jones, Kathryn E. Kemper, Yan Holtz, Michel G. Nivard, Laura Veul, Loic Yengo, Brendan P. Zietsch, Timothy M. Frayling, Naomi Wray, Jian Yang, Karin J.H. Verweij, Peter M. Visscher

ABSTRACT

Human DNA varies across geographic regions, with most variation observed so far reflecting distant ancestry differences. Here, we investigate the geographic clustering of genetic variants that influence complex traits and disease risk in a sample of ~450,000 individuals from Great Britain. Out of 30 traits analyzed, 16 show significant geographic clustering at the genetic level after controlling for ancestry, likely reflecting recent migration driven by socio-economic status (SES). Alleles associated with educational attainment (EA) show most clustering, with EA-decreasing alleles clustering in lower SES areas such as coal mining areas. Individuals that leave coal mining areas carry more EA-increasing alleles on average than the rest of Great Britain. In addition, we leveraged the geographic clustering of complex trait variation to further disentangle regional differences in socio-economic and cultural outcomes through genome-wide association studies on publicly available regional measures, namely coal mining, religiousness, 1970/2015 general election outcomes, and Brexit referendum results.