- Caste and class are mixed phenomena in India's rural society, with former higher castes becoming higher classes.
- Caste refers to a social hierarchy determined by birth, involving restrictions like endogamy, while class systems allow for more social mobility based on achievement and merit.
- Both caste and class systems involve inequalities that are perpetuated across generations through control over wealth, power, and status.
Social stratification exists in all known societies and refers to the hierarchical arrangement of social categories and statuses. It can be viewed as a social structure defined by institutionalized inequality, a social process of competition and conflict, or a social problem causing disconnect. The basic components are social class, referring to socioeconomic standing, and social status, one's position within a class. A society's stratification system is influenced by social institutions and can be closed, with inherited status, or open, allowing social mobility. The Philippines has a stratification system with indigenous and colonial influences, consisting of a small upper class, emerging middle class, and large lower class, defined by factors like occupation, land ownership, and ethnicity.
The document discusses social stratification and inequality from sociological perspectives. It defines social stratification as the division of society into hierarchies based on factors like wealth, power and access to resources. This gives rise to inequality. There are two main systems of stratification - closed, which are rigid like caste systems, and open, which allow more mobility based on achievement. Mobility, exclusion, gender and racial inequalities are also examined. Theoretical perspectives like functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism provide frameworks for analyzing stratification. Global stratification results in unequal development and lifestyles between nations.
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Social stratification refers to a society's hierarchical ranking and categorization of people based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power. Societies stratify into layers with some groups having more access to resources and higher social standing than others. While caste systems assign social standing rigidly at birth, class systems allow for some social mobility between classes based on individual achievement and attributes. Key aspects of social stratification include social classes, gender, race/ethnicity, and age/disability, which can influence life chances and access to opportunities.
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Social stratification refers to a society having different layers or groups of people with different statuses, power, prestige, and wealth. There are several systems of social stratification: slavery, where people are owned as property; estate systems with nobility and peasants; caste systems where social standing is determined at birth; and class systems where social standing is based on factors like education and wealth. The major dimensions of social stratification are political/power, economic, and social prestige.
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The document discusses the meaning and types of social stratification. It states that all societies stratify their members in terms of superiority, inferiority and equality. The major types of stratification discussed are caste, class, gender and slavery. It provides examples of how stratification occurs in Indian society based on caste and gender.
The role of education in addressing the needs of marginalized groups is also summarized. It is mentioned that education aims to empower marginalized communities and provide equal opportunities to fight social inequalities.
The document discusses social stratification and different stratification systems such as caste systems, class systems, and estate systems. It provides details on key characteristics of each system, including that caste systems are based on ascribed status at birth and largely determine occupation, mandate endogamy, limit social contacts, and are underpinned by powerful beliefs. Class systems involve achievement in addition to ascribed status and have lower status consistency. Estate systems divided societies into hereditary groups tied to land ownership and services.
This document discusses concepts of social stratification from sociological perspectives including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. It outlines characteristics of stratification systems such as being social rather than biological, ancient, universal, and consequential in terms of life chances and lifestyle. Common bases or forms of stratification discussed include free and unfree populations, social class, caste, estate and status, occupation and income, race and ethnicity, ruling class, and administrative position.
This document provides an overview of social stratification. It defines social stratification as the layering and ranking of groups in a society based on power, property, and prestige. It discusses the key dimensions and types of stratification, including egalitarian, ranked, class-based, and caste societies. Gender, slavery, and the emergence of social hierarchies over time are also addressed. The purpose is for students to understand social inequality and how it varies across different types of societies.
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This document provides a summary of key concepts from chapters 12-14 of an introductory sociology textbook. It discusses systems of social stratification like caste, estate, class, and concepts like social mobility, prejudice, discrimination, and the social construction of race, ethnicity, and gender. The main points covered include definitions of social class, the legitimizing rationales that bolster stratification systems, Marx and Weber's conceptualizations of class, and forms of social stratification like slavery.
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This document discusses concepts related to social stratification and mobility. It defines social stratification as the ranking of individuals and groups in a society into a hierarchy of social categories. Stratification systems can be open, allowing mobility, or closed, restricting mobility. The document contrasts the functionalist and conflict theories of stratification. Functionalist theory views stratification as necessary for society, while conflict theory sees it as arising from competition and maintaining inequality. The document also discusses concepts like social classes, castes, estates, and types of social mobility including upward, horizontal, and geographic mobility.
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Social stratification refers to a system that ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. It is a universal trait of society that is passed down generations and involves inequality as well as beliefs. There are three main systems of social stratification - caste, class, and meritocracy. Caste is based on ascription or birth alone and allows little social mobility. Class systems consider both birth and individual achievements, allowing some choice and mobility. Meritocracy ranks people based on personal merit. In medieval Britain, there was a caste-like system with the clergy, nobility, and commoners comprising the three estates.
Social stratification describes the system of social standing and ranks in society that leads to social inequality. It involves classifying people into groups based on shared socioeconomic conditions. Max Weber determined that a person's status is defined by their relative power, prestige, and wealth. Types of social stratification include caste systems which assign permanent social status based on birth, class systems where social status depends on achievement and ability, and feudal systems where wealth came from land ownership.
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Social stratification refers to a society's hierarchical ranking and categorization of people based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power. Societies stratify into layers with some groups having more access to resources and higher social standing than others. While caste systems assign social standing rigidly at birth, class systems allow for some social mobility between classes based on individual achievement and attributes. Key aspects of social stratification include social classes, gender, race/ethnicity, and age/disability, which can influence life chances and access to opportunities.
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Social stratification refers to a society having different layers or groups of people with different statuses, power, prestige, and wealth. There are several systems of social stratification: slavery, where people are owned as property; estate systems with nobility and peasants; caste systems where social standing is determined at birth; and class systems where social standing is based on factors like education and wealth. The major dimensions of social stratification are political/power, economic, and social prestige.
Social stratification refers to the division of a society into categories of people based on factors like wealth, income, occupation, education or social status. It involves ranking individuals into a hierarchy.
The document discusses the meaning and types of social stratification. It states that all societies stratify their members in terms of superiority, inferiority and equality. The major types of stratification discussed are caste, class, gender and slavery. It provides examples of how stratification occurs in Indian society based on caste and gender.
The role of education in addressing the needs of marginalized groups is also summarized. It is mentioned that education aims to empower marginalized communities and provide equal opportunities to fight social inequalities.
The document discusses social stratification and different stratification systems such as caste systems, class systems, and estate systems. It provides details on key characteristics of each system, including that caste systems are based on ascribed status at birth and largely determine occupation, mandate endogamy, limit social contacts, and are underpinned by powerful beliefs. Class systems involve achievement in addition to ascribed status and have lower status consistency. Estate systems divided societies into hereditary groups tied to land ownership and services.
This document discusses concepts of social stratification from sociological perspectives including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. It outlines characteristics of stratification systems such as being social rather than biological, ancient, universal, and consequential in terms of life chances and lifestyle. Common bases or forms of stratification discussed include free and unfree populations, social class, caste, estate and status, occupation and income, race and ethnicity, ruling class, and administrative position.
This document provides an overview of social stratification. It defines social stratification as the layering and ranking of groups in a society based on power, property, and prestige. It discusses the key dimensions and types of stratification, including egalitarian, ranked, class-based, and caste societies. Gender, slavery, and the emergence of social hierarchies over time are also addressed. The purpose is for students to understand social inequality and how it varies across different types of societies.
This document discusses different forms of social stratification including ascribed and achieved status, open and closed systems of stratification, and examples like the caste system in India, apartheid in South Africa, and social class. It defines key terms and compares different forms of stratification.
This document provides a summary of key concepts from chapters 12-14 of an introductory sociology textbook. It discusses systems of social stratification like caste, estate, class, and concepts like social mobility, prejudice, discrimination, and the social construction of race, ethnicity, and gender. The main points covered include definitions of social class, the legitimizing rationales that bolster stratification systems, Marx and Weber's conceptualizations of class, and forms of social stratification like slavery.
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This document discusses concepts related to social stratification and mobility. It defines social stratification as the ranking of individuals and groups in a society into a hierarchy of social categories. Stratification systems can be open, allowing mobility, or closed, restricting mobility. The document contrasts the functionalist and conflict theories of stratification. Functionalist theory views stratification as necessary for society, while conflict theory sees it as arising from competition and maintaining inequality. The document also discusses concepts like social classes, castes, estates, and types of social mobility including upward, horizontal, and geographic mobility.
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Social stratification refers to a system that ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. It is a universal trait of society that is passed down generations and involves inequality as well as beliefs. There are three main systems of social stratification - caste, class, and meritocracy. Caste is based on ascription or birth alone and allows little social mobility. Class systems consider both birth and individual achievements, allowing some choice and mobility. Meritocracy ranks people based on personal merit. In medieval Britain, there was a caste-like system with the clergy, nobility, and commoners comprising the three estates.
Social stratification describes the system of social standing and ranks in society that leads to social inequality. It involves classifying people into groups based on shared socioeconomic conditions. Max Weber determined that a person's status is defined by their relative power, prestige, and wealth. Types of social stratification include caste systems which assign permanent social status based on birth, class systems where social status depends on achievement and ability, and feudal systems where wealth came from land ownership.
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7. SOCIETY
Society is a large grouping
that shares the same territory
and is subject to the same
political authority dominant
cultural expectations
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society is universal having no boundary or limits.
family is the force of biological interdependence
of society.
Society is the mutual interaction of individuals. It
is invisible.
Active cooperation is the back bone of the society.
18. Social Structure in the
Macro Level Perspective
Social structure is a stable pattern of
social relationships that exist within a
particular group or society
Structure is provided by status and
roles, groups, and social institutions
19. Social Structure in the Macro
Level Perspective
social structure creates boundaries
that define which persons or groups
will be the insiders and which will be
the outsiders
social marginality is the state of
being part insiders in part outsider in
the social structure
20. Social Structure in the
Macro Level Perspective
social marginality results in
stigmatization
a stigma is any physical or social
attribute or sign that shows a
person's social identity that
disqualifies that person from full
social acceptance
22. STATUS
A status is a socially defines position in a
group or society characterized by certain
expectations rights and duties
Ascribed status is a social position
conferred at birth or received involuntarily
later in life
Achieved status is a social position in
person assumes involuntarily as a result of
personal choice merit or direct effort
23. What is Social Stratification?
For tens of thousands of years, humans
lived in small hunting and gathering
societies. These bands of people show
little signs of inequality. As societies
became more complex, major changes
came about, these changes elevated
certain categories of the population by
giving them more power, money, and
prestige.
24. Social Stratification- a
system by which a society
ranks categories of people
in a hierarchy.
25. 1. Social stratification is a trait of society, not
simply a reflection of individual differences.
Children born into wealthy families are more likely
than children born in poverty to experience good
healthy, achieve academically, succeed in lifes
work and live a long life.
2. Social stratification persists over generations.
To see stratification as a trait of society rather than
one of individuals, we need to only look at how
inequality persists along generations. In all
societies, parents pass their social position on to
their children.
26. 3. Social stratification is universal but
variable.
In some societies, inequality is mostly a
matter of prestige; in others, wealth or
power is the key dimension of difference.
More importantly some societies display
more inequality than others.
4. Social stratification involves not just
inequality but beliefs.
Any system of inequality gives some
people more than others and the society
also defines the arrangements as fair.
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TYPES OF STRATIFICATION
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1. Open stratification system:
Stratification system in which merit rather than
inheritance (ascribed characteristics) determines
social rank
Allows for social change
Is reflected in a meritocracy:
Positions are achieved, not ascribed
Characterized by equal opportunity and high
social mobility (movement up or down a social
hierarchy)*
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TYPES OF STRATIFICATION
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2. Closed stratification system
Stratification system in which inheritance rather
than merit determines social rank
Little social change possible
Reflected in a caste system:
Positions are ascribed, not achieved
Characterized by little social mobility
31. Kin, clan, tribe, ethnicity
Many small-scale societies are made up of groups that take kinship,
i.e. marriage, descent and filiation as the primary principles of
membership.
Descent groups, i.e. groups that define their membership through
descent from a common ancestor are very common in small-scale
societies. They can be patrilineal, matrilineal, or consanguineal, i.e.
descent is traced from either mother or father.
A descent group formed from unilineal descent, and to which a
common ancestor can be traced is called a lineage.
A descent group formed through unilineal descent, and to which a
common ancestor cannot be exactly traced, is called a clan.
A tribe is a social division in a traditional society consisting of families
or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties,
with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized
leader.
An Ethnic group is a community or population made up of people who
share a common cultural background or descent.
Kinship, clan, tribe, ethnic groups etc
32. Caste and Class Systems
A Caste System- is a social system based
on ascription, or birth.
A pure caste system is closed because birth
alone determines ones destiny, with little or
no opportunity for social mobility based on
effort.
33. Caste
Feature of the South Asian subcontinent.
Thought to have arisen through the transformation of tribes
in the transition to agricultural revolution.
Elements of caste appear to have existed in the Harappan
civilization, c. 3,000 BC
A major feature of caste is endogamy, i.e. the requirement
that people marry within their own caste, not outside it.
Also religious and cosmological ranking associated with
caste, found in major Hindu scriptures: earliest were the
division of society into 4 varnas (colours): Brahmins,
Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras.
2nd
century AD, a fifth category, the ati-Shudras, or
untouchables was added.
Untouchability was outlawed by the Indian constitution, 1951.
34. First, traditional caste groups have specific
occupations, so generations of a family
perform the same type of work.
Second, maintaining a rigid social hierarchy
depends on people marrying within their own
categories; mixed marriages would blur the
ranking of children.
Endogamy- marriage between people of the
same social category.
Third, caste norms guide people to stay in
the company of their own kind.
Fourth, caste systems rest on powerful
cultural beliefs.
35. Caste systems exist in agrarian societies
because life long routines of agriculture
depend on a rigid sense of duty and
discipline.
36. The Class System
Class System- social stratification based on both
birth and individual achievement.
The class system categorizes people according to
their color, sex, or social background comes to be
seen as wrong in industrial and post-industrial
societies, and all people gain political rights and
roughly equal standing before the law.
Meritocracy- social stratification based on personal
merit.
People in industrial societies develop a broad range
of capabilities, stratification is based on merit, which
is the job one does and how well one does it.
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CLASS AND CLASS
STRUCTURE
Class: Position in an economic hierarchy
occupied by individuals or families with similar
access to, or control over, material resources
(e.g., working class, professional class)
Class structure: Relatively permanent economic
hierarchy comprising different social classes
Socioeconomic status: Persons general status
within an economic hierarchy, based on income,
education, and occupation*
38. Nations and Nationalism
Shared heritage and historical experience the basis of a state.
Common language, shared origin, unique customs are features
that define a sense of nationhood.
Nationalism can often arise as a result of an ethnic movement.
19th
century nationalisms, formed through defining themselves
as one people, one language, one culture.
Difference between territorial nationalism versus a blood
nationalism, e.g. in Quebec.
Monocultural nationalisms are increasingly challenged by
transnational phenomena and groups, as increasing quantities
of information, cultural knowledge and people cross national
boundaries.
39. Social Mobility- change in ones
position in the social hierarchy.
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40. What is Social Mobility
Social mobility is defined as movement
from one class/status position to another
There are 2 types:
Intra- generational movement within one
generation e.g. a person moves from one
social class to another in the course of their
life time
Inter generational movement between
generations e.g. a persons father was a
Liverpool docker and he is a teacher
41. What is Social Mobility?
Definition: Movement from one class or more
usually
status groupto another
42. Horizontal Mobility
Movement from one position to another within
the same social level
Ex: Changing jobs without altering occupational status
Moving between social groups having the same social
status.
43. Vertical Mobility
Movement from one social level to a higher one
(upward mobility) or a lower one (downward
mobility)
Ex: Changing Jobs or Marrying
Cultural diffusion from one
social level to another
Adoption by one economic
class of the current fashions
or formerly current in a higher
class
44. Intergenerational Mobility
Movement within or between social classes and
occupations, the change occurring from one
generation to the next
Ex: Father to Son
Ex: Mother to Daughter
Can be horizontal or vertical
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OCCUPATIONAL
MOBILITY AND STATUS
ATTAINMENT
Occupational mobility: Moving up and down
occupational and income ladders
Intragenerational occupational mobility: Mobility
within an individuals lifetime
Intergenerational occupational mobility: Process
of reaching occupation location higher or lower
than location held by parents
Occupational status attainment: Main determinant
of status of a persons current job is status of first
job (dependent on educational attainment)*
Editor's Notes
#37: Existence of classes has been questioned recently because some scholars believe that material inequalities are decreasing
#45: Represents another important feature of stratification systems in modern societies
The status of ones fathers occupation still contributes to determining who gets better jobs (more status, higher income)
For a variety of reasons (e.g., more money for higher education, more well-educated role models), children from more advantaged backgrounds can build on their initial advantages