Stratification Systems
Types
Slave: owners/slaves
Estate: nobility/church/ commoners
Caste: birth & occupation
Class: economics/ sociocultural traits
Comparative components
1) Relative importance of ascribed v. achieved statuses
2) Degree of mobility or openness
What is the Basis of social stratification?
Relationship to the means of production
“Haves” v. “Have nots”
Bourgeoisie/ capitalists v. proletariat /workers
What is the Basis of social stratification?
May 1, 1929 – June 17, 2009)
"command class" V. "obey class" those with authority v. those without
What is the Basis of social stratification?
Life Chances
Class, Status, Party
Class = market situation
Status=social esteem
Party=ability to mobilize group for goal
A variety of ways to look at class
SES = Socioeconomic Status income/education/occupational prestige http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Social%20Class
Class interactive http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_01.html
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nat ional/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_01.ht
ml ES http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Social%20Class
Income: Geography of Recession http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWGzQ_FUtQ
Gilbert-Kahl Model of the Class Structure http://uncgsoc101.wordpress.com/module-6-social-stratification/
Subjective class identification
Political Behavior http://www.votecitizens.org/profiles/blogs/middle-classtake-over-the
Intersecting spheres http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/class_domination.html
Wealth http://uncgsoc101.wordpress.com/module-6-social-stratification/
http://motherjones.com/print/99036
Occupy Wall Street http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com
the people 99% those in control 1%
Occupy Wall Street http://www.jenx67.com/p/pre-occupied-with-wall-street.html
That 9% rate, by the way, equates to 14 million Americans—people who want to work but can't find a job.
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10That 9% rate, by the way, equates to 14 million Americans—people who want to work but can't find a job.
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-
10?op=1#ixzz1d3wjWqhU
CEO pay is now 350X the average worker's, up from 50X from 1960-1985.
Corporate profits just hit another all-time high.
The role of education in class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XHob_nVbw
Savage Inequalities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mdlYaCjf2I&feature=fvw
Photos of East St. Louis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2q3vqTiFHg&NR=1
Jonathan Kozol
September 5, 1936-