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-