Sociology I
Poverty as per Ruth Lister refers to the scarcity of resources to lead a meaningful life. While exclusion is a broader term in which an individual / social group is not allowed to engage / participate in wide social process.
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Syllabus: Stratification and Mobility: (a) Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation. (b) Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory. (c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race. (d) Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
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