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Social stratification and a stratified world?
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Social
Stratification
A class hierarchy
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Marx -Social Stratification – A Two class
hierarchy – based on economic ownership
• The Bourgeoisie
(The owners
and controllers of
the means of
production)
• The Proletariat
(the non owners
or workers)
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Marx - Conflict of interests in a two
class society
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Weber’s Social
Stratification
A four-class hierarchy based on
economics, power and status
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The Upper class
- wealthy and
powerful
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The Middle class – Non-manual workers
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The Working class – mainly manual
workers
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The Underclass - very poor, e.g.
the unemployed and homeless
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A stratified World?
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The world stratified into two layers?
Rich World
Poor World
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The world stratified into four layers?
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Put simply - countries roughly break along
a class hierarchy e.g.
Upper Class
Countries
Middle Class
Countries
Working Class
Countries (developing)
Underclass
Countries
USA, Japan, Singapore,
European Union, Australia,
New Zealand
Russia, Poland, Czech
Republic, Brazil, Mexico and
Turkey
China, India, Africa, Ghana,
Nigeria Pakistan, Indonesia
States such as , Albania,
Afghanistan, Somalia,
Sierra Leone, Bangladesh
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Stratification and social mobility
• Just as individuals and classes can be
economically and socially mobile, some
sociologists say that countries are
economically and socially mobile.
• NB
Besides class inequalities gender,
ethnicity, age and locality are also
dimensions of inequality both between
and within countries.
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