Life Chances and Resources

Bibliographic Data

ID7075992
AuthorsRyan W Cho (0000-0002-0608-2145, University of California, Los Angeles), J E Brand (0000-0002-6568-498X, University of California, Los Angeles)
Year2019
Pages1-5
Publication date2019-11-19
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosl043.pub2
OpenAlexW3217743462
ISBN9781405165518
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

Sociologists have long been interested in how the resources one has access to, which is often determined by one's class standing, affects one's life chances. Max Weber was one of the first to note that life chances were not random, and that, instead, life chances were often similar for those within the same social class. Resources typically refer to family background socioeconomic advantages; life chances indicate one's social standing in society, often measured by socioeconomic outcomes like education, occupation, and income. As resources are scarce, sociologists have attended to how unequally distributed such resources may be within a society and how that distribution of scarce resources impacts the reproduction of inequality. Life chances and resources is thus a central theme within the field of social stratification, inequality, and mobility

Class (philosophy · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Life chances · Microeconomics · Scarcity · Social class · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social science · Social stratification · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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