This document discusses social stratification systems. It defines social stratification as the hierarchical arrangement that categorizes individuals into social classes based on factors like wealth, power, and prestige. It notes that stratification is universal but varies between societies. Key characteristics of stratification systems discussed are that they persist across generations through concepts of social mobility, are influenced by a society's beliefs, and can be open or closed depending on opportunities for social class advancement. The document also presents functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionism perspectives on social stratification.

2. Concept, Characteristics
and Form of
Stratification Systems

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5. Categorizing individuals or group of people based
on factors such as power, wealth. and prestige. this
categories are what we call social classes, and
layering social classes from the lowest to highest is
called social stratification.
By definition social stratification is the
hierarchical arrangement and establishment of
social categories that may evolve into social groups
together with statuses and their corresponding
roles in the society

6. Categorizing individuals or group of people based
on factors such as power, wealth. and prestige. this
categories are what we call social classes, and
layering social classes from the lowest to highest is
called social stratification.
By definition social stratification is the
hierarchical arrangement and establishment of
social categories that may evolve into social groups
together with statuses and their corresponding
roles in the society.

7. Upper Class
Middle Class
Lower Class

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11. Middle class individuals are mostly professional
individuals or groups of people like lawyers, doctors,
managers, small business owners, and executives who work in
the corporate world.
They are able to meet both their needs and wants without
even worrying about their finances because of the job and
salary they have.

12. At the top of the pyramid is the upper class, explained by
sociologists as elite individuals or group of people that are
the most prolific and successful in their respective areas.
These people may be stockholders and investors in very
huge well-known companies from different industries here
and in abroad.

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MIDDLE CLASS
LOWER CLASS
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14. Characteristics of Stratification
Systems

15. Characteristics of Stratification
Systems
• Universal but variable. Stratification appears in
every society, but how it divides and categorizes
people, and what the advantages and
disadvantages that come from that division -
vary from society to society.
• Not a matter of individual differences. we can
see the effects of social stratification on people
regardless of their personal choices or traits.

16. Characteristics of Stratification
Systems
• Persists across generations. Stratification
categorizes and rank members of society across
generations, resulting in different life chances.
People sometimes move upward or downward in
social class, which is the basic concept of social
mobility.
• A social belief. A society's belief tell us how to
categorize people, and they define inequalities of
a stratification system as being normal, or even
fair.

17. • In a closed system of stratification is little or no
opportunity to advance from one social class to another.
Social status is hereditary, based on a group
characteristic
• Closed class system exists when a group of people are
given different opportunities, depending on the
characteristics they were born with, such as color,
gender, or the economic situation of their parents. In a
closed class system, you are stuck at your level. You can't
marry people from other classes.

18. • Class System is one of the best examples of open
system of stratification and is not based solely on
ascribed status at birth alone. Instead, it combines
ascribed status and personal achievement or
achieved status in a way that allows some social
mobility. Statuses are not the same. We get different
statuses in different ways and chances.

19. • Some are ascribed statuses, which are assigned or
given by the society or group based on some fixed
category, without regard to a person's abilities or
performance. Examples of ascribed status are sex,
family background, race, and ethnic heritage or
wealth. A person did nothing to earn these statuses,
nor has control over these characteristics and had no
opportunity or chance to choose family, sex, and race.
On the other hand, achieved statuses are earned by
the individual. The following scenarios serve as
examples

21. Their role in the society
could create job
opportunities for other
social classes below them.
In fact, there are jobs not
requiring a college degree.
In this sense, those who are
not able to finish their
studies can still be hired.
Those with college degree
can be employed with a
higher paid salary and good
position in a company.
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Every social class has its
purpose or role to play a part in
the society. We can't expect the
owner of a certain business
empire to do a construction
works; but instead, he will hire
someone to do it for himself. The
upper class, although they are
getting richer because they have
the capacity to exploit natural
and man-made resources simply
because they have the money.

22. Conflict Theory
This sociological perspective is
the opposite of the latter. Karl
Marx viewed social stratification
as creation of inequality
between the rich and the poor,
or the powerful versus the
powerless. Let's say for example:
The bourgeois capitalists owning
high-producing businesses or
factories and hire people who
work for them.
They can enjoy the luxury of life
because they earn billions of
money. However, proletariats are
the working class earned skimpy
wages and experiencing isolation
to the society. The very essence
of life is to enjoy it with loved
ones. However, working class did
not experience this joy because
they are isolated to do the labor
for long hours each day to earn
money at the end of the month.
Marx argued that proletariats
were oppressed by the money-
hungry bourgeois.

23. Symbolic interactionism view
social stratification on a
micro level where individuals
affect others whom they
have interacted because of
their social class status. In
most societies, people can
only interact only to those
with the same social class
status
Symbolic
Interactionism

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