WEEK 9.pptx SOCIAL STRATIFICATION modern Western societies
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In modern Western societies, social stratification is typically defined in terms of three social classes
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QUARTER 3 WEEK 9 Examine the concept, characteristics and forms of stratification system using sociological perspective JAMILLE DELA CRUZ ACOSTA Teacher II- Social Sciences Department
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION JAMILLE DELA CRUZ ACOSTA Teacher II- Social Sciences Department
Social Stratification describes the system of social standing the society into different categories, ranks or classes the way in which different groups of people are placed within society
In modern Western societies, social stratification is typically defined in terms of three social classes: the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class . In turn, each class can be subdivided into the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum. Moreover, a social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe, or caste, or all four.
Social stratification is a particular form of social inequality. All societies arrange their members in terms of superiority, inferiority and equality. Stratification is a process of interaction or differentiation whereby some people come to rank higher than others. In one word, when individuals and groups are ranked, according to some commonly accepted basis of valuation in a hierarchy of status levels based upon the inequality of social positions, social stratification occurs. Social stratification means division of society into different strata or layers. It involves a hierarchy of social groups.
Types of Social Stratification CASTE CLASS STRATIFICATION ESTATE SYSTEM SLAVERY ENDOGAMY EXOGAMY MERITOCRACY SOCIAL MOBILITY
CASTE is a hereditary endogamous social group in which a person’s rank and its accompanying rights and obligations are ascribed on the basis of his birth into a particular group.
CLASS STRATIFICATION on the basis of class is dominant in modern society. In this, a person’s position depends to a very great extent upon achievement and his ability to use to advantage the inborn characteristics and wealth that he may possess.
ESTATE SYSTEM of medieval Europe provides another system of stratification which gave much emphasis to birth as well as to wealth and possessions. Each estate had a state.
SLAVERY had economic basis. In slavery, every slave had his master to whom he was subjected. The master’s power over the slave was unlimited.
ENDOGAMY is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, c or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationship.
EXOGAMY is the social norm of marrying outside one's social group. The group defines the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity
MERITOCRACY is a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class.
SOCIAL MOBILITY the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society.