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Finished off Unit 1:
Introduced stratification:
Getting you thinking task
In depth look at
Stratification
Class systems:
1. Caste
2. Feudal
3. Industrial
Social Mobility
OBJECTIVES & OUTCOMES
LO:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, I
will understand:
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of the lesson, I will be
able to:
1. Understand Social
Stratification
2 Understand different types
of Class systems
3. How categories influence
sociologists.
1. Identify key features of class
systems
2.Discuss what Is meant by social
stratification.
LO: Exploring stratification in British Society
3. Evaluate the importance social
stratification
Outcome 1 of assignment : Social stratification:
The way people or different groups are
categorised or placed into hierarchical structure
based on their way of life
You could think about stratification like layers:
Stratification = Strata=
term borrowed from
Geology = layering of
society into strata from
which an hierarchy
emerges
Q: why do you think it is
important?
Defining social stratification
Why it is important
Consider the following questions
1. 1.important
Why do you
• Hierarchy
has: think it is
reflects ranks
of peopleimportant
to have a class
wealthy,system?
poor
• reflects the power
2.
What
benefits
are
there?
(Social status) they have
3. amount
What drawbacks
and the
of social are there?
influence
4. Once born into a class, do you
• Reflects think
the degree
of your life?
is effects
opportunity
members
5. How
easy is it to come out of
have to change their
determined
position this
in this
hierarchy class place?
SOCIAL STATUS
A person’s social status means, their
social importance
INPUT 1
Social Stratification
Teacher
What order would
youthan
put these
WhyAssistant
do we value some roles more
others?
Shop
people in?
Doctor
Member
of some
Parliament
Why should
jobs get paid more than others?
You should be able
Prince
to explain
What does it tell us about their social
status?how you
Builder
put them in order...
Do they have power?
LO: Exploring stratification in British Society
Social status
can be assigned in two ways based on
the two systems
•
•
•
•
Ascribed
Achieved
Q: What do you• think
Given at birth
• Hard work
these
two
ways
have
in
family- Queen
• Education
common?
Culturegirls are second • Marriage
class citizens
• Special talent
• Religious- Pope
• Good fortune: winning
• Closed societies
the lottery
• Open societies
Examples of closed societies
• YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5eyXPA
vGfM
• French pre- revolution era
Q: What are the chances
• Table: 6.1
for social mobility in the
Caste and feudal
Closed societies?
systems
Example of an open system
• An open class system is
an economic system
that has upward
mobility, is achievement
based, and allows social
relations between the
classes.
• United states- Steve
Jobs
• However you can go
down the system!
In conclusion
• The degree that a society is open or closed will
effect a persons social mobility ( ascribed, or
achieved) and hence their chance for moving
into another social status , and also their very
life…
• Most systems operate on a continuum
Table :6.1
Class and Stratification
Lesson 2: 04/11/2014
Lesson outline
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Learning outcomes
covered last week for
Criteria 1.1 of unit :
Learning outcomes (From
unit)- Understand the
difficulties in defining and
measuring social class.
• Must:
• define social mobility in
relation to social class
• Name two social class
scales
Learning synopsis for next
week: fulfilling criteria 2.1
• Must: define social
stratification and define
social status
• Should: explain open
and closed societies
with examples
• Could: evaluate the
differences between
open and closed
societies
• Should explain two
ways of measuring
social mobility and
relate to social class
scales
• Could: evaluate the two
scales of social mobility
• Looking at the new
social class scales
• Compiling what we
know: Preparing for
section A. part 1 of
assignment
Last lesson reminder
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1. Define Social stratification
2. Define social status?
3. describe a open society and a closed society
Evaluate the negatives and positives of these
types of society
• 4. In your opinion: What changed in society to
bring about the ability to improve your social
status?
What is social mobility?
Social mobility: what is it and how we
can we measure it!
• Defined as the ability to move from one social
class to another- so it is how we measure
social class (part of C2.1)
• It can be Either up or down!
• Determines your social class Based on
Meritocracy
• There are two types of social mobility:
Intergenerational mobilty
• Intergenerational social mobility refers to the
relationship between the socio- economic
status of parents and the status their children
will attain as adults (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD, 2010)
• Comparison of statuses over time with a
family
• Father was a mechanic, son is a doctor: hence socially
mobile
Intra generational mobility
• Intra-generational mobility refers to the
changes in someone's social mobility
throughout the course of his or her lifetime.
• Person starts out as a factory packer, then
years later is a nurse
• socially mobile
Why is it important to measure
social mobility?
Conclusion
• Social mobility is the way to measure social class…
However…
• 1. what could affect social mobility?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohIk3IELXF8
• But what is social class?
Outcome 2/2.1 of assignment:
what is Social class?
• Groups of people who
share a similar rank – or
economic position.
• We use occupation as the
measure for social class
• T: Why use occupation?
for example what can
money ‘buy’ you?
• T: Is there any drawbacks?
Wealth
Education
Occupation
Power
Social
activities
Working towards 2.1
how social class as been measured
using social mobility studies
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Social class scales:
The registrar general’s scale
The Hope- Goldthorpe scale
National Statistics Socio-economic
Classification (NS-SEC) 2001
Independent group work and mini
presentation
• Group 1
• Hand-out and
worksheet
• Group 2
• Hand-out and
worksheet
The Registrar General’s scale (RGS)
History and application
• Used since 1911
• Thousand of jobs into six
classes
• Based on occupational head
of the family
• Positives: Has been used to
show differences in
educational achievements
and also life expectancy
• Main classification system
hence it is valid as it is
comparable to past data
Any negatives?
Negatives of this scale (RGS)
• Bias towards non- manual occupations, as study
was done by the RG staff
• Failed to recognise those that did not work
• Unemployed were classified on their last job,
however many had never worked!
• Sexist?
• Same classes still has access to different wages
and promotions
• Didn’t recognise the self employed!
The Hope-Goldthorpe Scale (HGS)
• Also known as the Oxford mobility study
• Differs from the previous as a different system
of measuring classed was used
• Focused on market rewards gained from
occupations
• 7 class system
• Long range mobility: 7.1% of sons from class 7
were in class 1
Lesson: 07/11/2014
Aiming at criteria 2.1
Review of lesson
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Check learning: must, should, and could.
Please answer the following questions
1. what does social mobility mean?
2. what is the name of the two scales we
looked at today?
• 3. how do they explain social mobility
• 4. anything wrong we these two scales?
• Hand the answers to me with your name on!
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• How we define social
class
• How we measure social
class:
Social mobility
Social mobility scales:
• Registrar general scale
• Hope-Goldthorpe scale
Finish off criteria 2.1
How we measure social
class
Scales to look at:
NS- SEC scale
Must : identify the key
features of the NS SEC
scale
Should explain how this
scale is better then the
older ones
Start looking at the
Post modernist perspective
(Exam)
Could evaluate the
limitations of all the scales
and to measuring social
classes
A couple of questions
• 1. a positive and negative of the registrar
general scale
• 2. a positive and negative of the HopeGoldhorpe scale
The NE-SEC scale
• A3 handout and tasks
An even newer scale…