Module 3 Flashcards
categorizing individuals or group of people based on factors such as power, wealth and prestige.
Social Classes
the layering of these social classes from higher to lower class
Social Stratification
defined as the hierarchical arrangement and establishment of social categories that may evolve into social groups together with statuses and their corresponding roles in the society (Cordero-McDonald, et al., 1995, 380).
Social Stratification
How many classes is social stratification divided into?
Three social classes
The social class at the top of the pyramid
Upper Class
This class in the society is described by the sociologists as elite individuals or group of people that are most prolific and successful in their respective areas.
Upper Class
These people may be stockholders and investors in very huge well-known companies from different industries here and abroad.
Upper Class
The social class that divides the upper and lower class
Middle Class
Social class made up of mostly professional individuals or groups of people like lawyers, doctors, managers,
owners of small businesses in the locality, and executives who work in the
corporate world, etc
Middle Class
They are able to meet both their needs and wants without even worrying about their finances because of the job and salary they have. They live in spacious houses and situated in best suburbs. Their income can afford them a comfortable lifestyle. They value education the most since education to them is the
most important measure of social status.
Middle Class
The lowest part of the pyramid of social classes
Lower Class
These are the skilled and unskilled artisan, farm
employees, underemployed, and indigent families.
Lower Class
Because of the given status in life,
these people lack revenue or income and educational training or background.
Without the proper education, some of them are jobless or have difficulty to find a
job in order to make ends meet. They also lack support network that could lift them
up.
Lower Class
What are the 4 Characteristics of Stratification Systems?
- Universal but variable
- Not a matter of individual differences
- Persists across generations
- A social beliefs
It is what we are talking about when we
talk about social inequality and social mobility.
Social Stratification
Stratification shows up in every society in the
world, but how exactly it looks like, how it divides and categorizes people, and what
the advantages or disadvantages are that come with that division - vary from society
to society.
Stratification is universal but variable
We know we can see the effects of social
stratification on people regardless of their personal choices or traits. For example,
children of wealthy families are more likely to live longer and be healthier, to attend
college, and to excel in school as compared to children born into poverty. Moreover,
they are more likely to be wealthy themselves when they grow up.
Stratification is not a matter of individual differences
Stratification serves to categorize and rank members of society across generations, resulting in different life chances. Yet generally, society allows some degree of social mobility, or changes in the position within the social hierarchy. People sometimes move upward or downward in social
class, which is the basic concept of social mobility.
Stratification persists across generations
Tell us how to categorize people, and
they define inequalities of a stratification system as being normal, or even fair. If
people don’t believe that the system is right, it won’t last.
A social beliefs
They are what make systems of social stratification work and it is through these ________ about social stratification that inform what it means to deserve wealth, success, or power.
Beliefs
What are the 2 forms of stratification systems?
- Close System of Stratification
- Open system of stratification
What form of stratification is India’s caste system?
CLOSE SYSTEM OF STRATIFICATION
marriage within your own caste category
Endogamy
one of the best examples of open system of stratification and is not based solely on ascribed status at birth alone. Instead, it combines ascribed status and personal achievement or achieved status in a way that allows some social mobility.
Class System
Status assigned or given by the society or
group based on some fixed category, without regard to a person’s abilities or
performance.
Ascribed status
Examples of ascribed status
sex, family background, race, and
ethnic heritage or wealth.
A person did nothing to earn these statuses, nor has control over these characteristics and had no opportunity or chance to choose family,
sex, and race
Ascribed Status
Status earned by the individual.
Achieved status
one establishes which statuses he or she wants. Frequently, a person struggles and exerts more effort on others to get hold of them.
Achieved Status
The system of stratification we have in Philippine socety
Class System
a system in which social mobility is based on personal merit and
individual talents
Meritocracy
Social Stratification in 3 Sociological Perspectives
- Functionalism
- Conflict Theory
- Symbolic Interactionism
States that social inequality brought by social stratification base from wealth, prestige, and power of social groups, is indeed functional in the society.
Functionalist Theory
Views social stratification as creation of inequality between the rich and the poor, or the powerful versus the powerless. (bourgeois capitalists vs proletariats)
Conflict Theory
Views social stratification on a micro level where individuals affect others whom they have interacted because of their social class status. In most societies, people can only interact only to those with the same social class status.
Symbolic Interactionism
relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
Egalitarian
a system in which social mobility is based on personal merit and individual talents.
meritocracy
