Social stratification involves the classification of people into hierarchical groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, occupation, education, and social status. It persists over generations and involves inequities in power, prestige, and property ownership between groups. While social stratification systems vary across cultures, they typically involve ranking social categories that influence life experiences and opportunities.

1. Industrial Sociology
introducing
Social Stratification

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3. In sociology, social stratification is a concept
involving the "classification of people into
groups based on shared socio-economic
conditions ... a relational set of inequalities with
economic, social, political and ideological
dimensions.“
When differences lead to greater status,
power or privilege for some groups over
the other it is called Social Stratification.
What Is Social
Stratification

4. Social stratification and the African
influences in American slave
communities
Example of Social Stratification

6. » Social Stratification is a Characteristics of
society – not just due to individual difference
» Social Stratification Persist over generation
» Social Stratification in universal but variable
( it changes)
» Social Stratification involves both inequity and
beliefs
4 Fundamental principal

7. Three characteristics of stratified systems
1. The rankings apply to social categories of people who share a common
characteristic without necessarily interacting or identifying with each other. The
process of being ranked can be changed by the person being ranked.
Example: The way we rank people differently by race, gender, and social class
2. People's life experiences and opportunities depend on their social category. This
characteristic can be changed by the amount of work a person can put into their
interests.
Example: The greater advantage had by the son or daughter of a king to have a
successful life than the son or daughter of a minimum-wage factory worker,
because the king has a greater amount of resources than the factory worker. The
use of resources can influence others.
3. The ranks of different social categories change slowly over time. This has
occurred frequently in the United States ever since the American revolution.
The U.S. constitution has been altered several times to specify rights for everyone.

8. 1. Power
2. Prestige
3. Property
It’s Based on 3 major premises

9. Max Weber
Max Weber was strongly influenced by
Marx's ideas, but rejected the possibility
of effective communism, arguing that it
would require an even greater level of
detrimental social control and
bureaucratization than capitalist society.
Moreover, Weber criticized
the dialectical presumption of proletariat
revolt, believing it to be unlikely.
Karl Marx
In Marxist theory, the capitalist mode
of production consists of two main
economic parts: the substructure and
the superstructure. Marx saw classes
as defined by people's relationship to
the means of productions in two basic
ways: either they own productive
property or labour for others.
Sociological overview

10. Sociological overview ( Cont.)
• C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills contended that the imbalance of power in society derives
from the complete absence of countervailing powers against corporate
leaders of the power elite. Mills both incorporated and
revised Marxist ideas. While he shared Marx's recognition of a dominant
wealthy and powerful class, Mills believed that the source for that power
lay not only in the economic realm but also in the political and military
arenas.

11. Anthropologists have found that social stratification is not the standard
among all societies. John Gowdy writes, "Assumptions about human
behaviour that members of market societies believe to be universal,
that humans are naturally competitive and acquisitive, and that social
stratification is natural, do not apply to many hunter-gatherer peoples.
Kinship-orientation
Anthropologists identify egalitarian cultures as "kinship-oriented,"
because they appear to value social harmony more than wealth or
status. These cultures are contrasted with economically oriented
cultures (including states) in which status and material wealth are
prized, and stratification, competition, and conflict are common.
Kinship-oriented cultures actively work to prevent social hierarchies
from developing because they believe that such stratification could lead
to conflict and instability.
Anthropological overview

12. Research suggests that social stratification can cause many social problems. A
comprehensive study of major world economies revealed that homicide, infant
mortality, obesity, teenage pregnancies, emotional depression, teen suicide, and
prison population all correlate with higher social inequality.
Social impact

13. Social mobility
• Social mobility is the movement of individuals or groups in
social standing social position.
• It may refer to classes, ethnic groups, or entire nations, and
may measure health status, literacy, or education — but
more commonly it refers to individuals or families, and
their change in income (economic mobility).
• It also typically refers to vertical mobility—movement of
individuals or groups up (or down) from one socio-
economic level to another, often by changing jobs or
marriage; but can also refer to horizontal mobility—
movement from one position to another within the same
social level.

14. Social class
• Social class (or simply "class"), as in a class
society, is a set of concepts in the social
sciences and political theory centered on
models of social stratification in which people
are grouped into a set of hierarchical social
categories, the most common being the
upper, middle, and lower classes.

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