Uncommon Grace The Autobiography of Isaac Folorunso
Chapter 9 Lecture Notes.pptx
1. Systems of Social Stratification
9.1 Compare and contrast slavery (including bonded labor), caste, estate, and class systems of social
stratification.
• Slavery
• Caste
• Estate
• Class
• Global Stratification and the Status of Females
• The Global Superclass
2. Slavery (1 of 2)
• Slavery
• Causes
• Conditions
• Bonded Labor
• Slavery in the New World
• Slavery Today
3. Slavery (2 of 2)
I have read a lot
about slavery, but I
did not know that
slaves were ever
offered as prizes in
raffles. You might also
note that top billing
in this 1800s poster
from Missouri goes to
a horse.
4. Caste (1 of 2)
• India’s religious caste
• South Africa
• U.S. racial caste system
5. Figure 9.1 India’s Caste System
Pyramid delineating the various castes in India.
Source: By the author.
6. Caste (2 of 2)
After centuries of
silence, women of
India are daring to
protest rape publicly.
This photo of students
holding a candlelight
march was taken in
Allahabad, India.
8. Class (1 of 2)
• More open
• Possibility of social mobility
9. Class (2 of 2)
In early industrialization,
children worked
alongside adults. They
worked twelve hours a
day Monday to Friday
and fifteen hours on
Saturday, often in
dangerous, filthy
conditions. This photo of
a child coal miner was
taken in West Virginia in
1908.
10. Global Stratification and the Status of Females
• Gender is basis of social stratification
• This is the case all over the world
11. The Global Superclass
• Richest 1,000 have more wealth than the 2.5 billion
poorest people
• Almost all are white
• Almost all are male unless they are “wives of” or
“daughters of”
12. Figure 9.2 The Distribution of the Earth’s
Wealth
Pie charts showing the proportion of wealth in the world owned by the wealthiest people.
Source: By the author. Based on Keating et al. 2013.
13. What Determines Social Class?
9.2 Contrast the views of Marx and Weber on what determines social class.
• Karl Marx: The Means of Production
• Max Weber: Property, Power, and Prestige
14. Marx’s Perspective
• Means of production
• Bourgeoisie
• Proletariat
• Class consciousness
• False class consciousness
16. Figure 9.3 Weber’s Three Components of
Social Class
Examples of the ways in which
power, property, and prestige
can each lead to other
components of social class.
Source: By the author.
17. Why Is Social Stratification Universal?
9.3 Contrast the functional and conflict views of why social stratification is universal.
• The Functionalist View: Motivating Qualified People
• The Conflict Perspective: Class Conflict and Scarce
Resources
• Lenski’s Synthesis
18. The Functionalist View: Motivating Qualified
People
• Davis and Moore’s explanation
• Tumin’s critique
19. The Conflict View: Encountering Class Conflict
and Scarce Resources (1 of 2)
• Mosca’s argument
• Marx’s argument
• Current applications of conflict theory
20. The Conflict View: Encountering Class Conflict
and Scarce Resources (2 of 2)
Table 9.1 Functionalist and Conflict Views of Stratification:
The Distribution of Society’s Resources
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Who Receives the Most
Resources?
Who Receives the
Least Resources?
The Functionalist
View
Those who perform the more
important functions (the more
capable and more industrious)
Those who perform the less
important functions (the
less capable and less
industrious)
The Conflict View Those who occupy the more
powerful positions
Those who occupy the less
powerful positions
Source: By the author.
21. How Do Elites Maintain Stratification?
9.4 Discuss the ways that elites keep themselves in power.
• Soft Control Versus Force
• Controlling People’s Ideas
• Controlling Information
• Stifling Criticism
• Big Brother Technology
22. Comparative Social Stratification
9.5 Contrast social stratification in Great Britain and the former Soviet Union.
• Social Stratification in Great Britain
• Social Stratification in the Former Soviet Union
23. Global Stratification: Three Worlds (1 of 4)
9.6 Compare social stratification in the Most Industrialized Nations, the Industrializing Nations,
and the Least Industrialized Nations.
• The Most Industrialized Nations
• The Industrializing Nations
• The Least Industrialized Nations
• Modifying the Model
24. Global Stratification: Three Worlds (2 of 4)
Table 9.2 Distribution of the World’s Land and Population
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Land Population
Most Industrialized Nations 31% 16%
Industrializing Nations 20% 16%
Least Industrialized Nations 49% 68%
Source: By the author. Computed from Kurian 1990, 1991, 1992.
25. Figure 9.4 Global Stratification: Income of the
World’s Nations (1 of 2)
Map showing the average income
per person in the nations of the
Western Hemisphere.
Source: By the author. Based on CIA World
Factbook 2017.
26. Figure 9.4 Global Stratification: Income of the
World’s Nations (2 of 2)
Map showing the average income
per person in the nations of the
Eastern Hemisphere.
Source: By the author. Based on CIA
World Factbook 2017.
28. Global Stratification: Three Worlds (4 of 4)
Table 9.3 An Alternative Model of Global Stratification
• Four Worlds of Stratification
• Most Industrialized Nations
• Industrializing Nations
• Least Industrialized Nations
• Oil-rich, Non-industrialized Nations
Source: By the author.
29. How Did the World’s Nations Become Stratified?
9.7 Discuss how colonialism and world system theory explain how the world’s nations became
stratified.
• Colonialism
• World System Theory
• Culture of Poverty
• Evaluating the Theories
30. Globalization Comes Home: Maquiladoras
South of the Border (1 of 2)
A maquiladora worker
in Ciudad Juarez,
Chihuahua, Mexico. She
assembles dashboard
harnesses for GM cars.
31. Globalization Comes Home: Maquiladoras
South of the Border (2 of 2)
Inside the home of a
maquiladora worker
in Nuevo Laredo,
Mexico.
32. Maintaining Global Stratification
9.8 Explain how neocolonialism, multinational corporations, and technology help to maintain global
stratification.
• Neocolonialism
• Multinational Corporations
• Technology and Global Domination
33. Strains in the Global System
9.9 Identify strains in today’s system of global stratification.
• Contradictions Threaten Failure or Collapse
• Historical shifts bring cataclysmic disruptions
• We are now living through such a time
Editor's Notes
From top to bottom, they are labeled as Brahmin (Priests and teachers); Kshatriya (Rulers and soldiers); Vaishya (Merchants and traders); Shudra (Peasants and laborers); and Dalit (the outcastes; degrading or polluting labor).
The first shows that the wealthiest 10 percent of adults worldwide own 86 percent of the earth's wealth, while the other 10 percent own 14 percent. The second shows the wealthiest 1 percent of adults worldwide own 46 percent of the earth's wealth, while the other 99 percent own 54 percent.
The Weber’s three components of social class are as follows:
• Power leads to
o Property (crooked politicians)
o Prestige (Abe Lincoln; Barack Obama)
• Property leads to
o Power (Donald Trump; the wealthy who become presidents)
o Prestige ((Warren Buffet; the wealthy in general)
• Prestige leads to
o Power (Ronald Reagan; Arnold Schwarzenegger)
o Property (Olympic gold medalists who endorse products).
