1. System by witch society ranks or catagories people
2. Allocates resources based on social position or status
3. Univerasal and normative to society
4. Persists over generations

Social Class

(Marx and Webber)

Three Dimensions

1. Wealth : Economic Standing
2. Power : Ability to Realize Golas Despite Resistance
3. Prestige : Respect or Approval a Society Grants a Person

1. Social advancement possible
2. Advancement based on skills and talent
3. Okay to marry outside ones social class
4. Industrialized countries

1. Social status based on ones birth
2. Social advancement is difficult
3. Supported by religious institution

Rich vs. Poor

(Education and Employability)

1. More Likely to enter and finish college
2. Less likely to be arrested or imprisioned
3. More leisure time
4. Child Rearing : More Permissive

Gini Index

Scale of one to a hundred, one being perfect equality and hundred being perfect inequality.

Made by Corrado Gini (Italian)

1. It is functional and normative
2. Society has many tasks to acomplish 
3. Not all tasks are of equal importance or difficulty
4. A society must motivate capable individiuals to fill those important positions by offering them rewards of power, prestige and income

1. Stratification - create a system to protect the interests of the capatilists.
2. the ruling class is able to exploit the suppressed members of the society through force or inherited privilage
3. The rich will try to maintain or expand their wealth and power via exploitation

Culture of Poverty

(Blaming the Victim)

1. Unable to differ immediate gratification
2. Faltilistic
3. Helplessness
4. Not conductive to social $$$ advancement

(food x 3)

line of poverty

1. Functional Perspective
2. Deviant State
3. Responsible to get well
4. Exempt from normal duties
5. Not responsible for sickness

1. Cost Containment
2. MD Coordinates Care
3. MD manages health care resources
4. $$$ Based on acuity of disease
5. HMO (Health Maintainence Organization)

Male vs. Female

In Terms of Longevity

1. 74.8 vs. 80.1
2. More Optimistic vs. Less Optimistic
3. 22% smoking vs. 18% Smoking
4. No early help for men
5. More hazrdous jobs

1. Not tied to employment
2. Supported via Govrnment
3. Co-payment for medical
4. Long waiting periods for non essential surgery

Dimensins of Religion

1. Rituals
2. Experiences( having a relationship with god)
3. Belief

1. Values (ie Moral/Immoral)
2. Cosmology (ie diety of god; creation vs. evolution)

1. Social Cohesion
2. Social Control
3. Gives meaning and purpose

1. opium of the people
2. sense of illusion
3. forces people to look to future instead of solving problems now.
4. Maintain status quo
5. Justifies social inequality

1. Salvation is not guaranteed
2. Who goes is pre selected
3. Anxiety caused more materialistic prosperity as a sign of salvation.

1. If part of a church salvation is guaranteed
2. Religion affectts the social and econ development of society
3. Most part of catholic church

1. Super being to solve our problems
2. Beliving in Religion is a pathalogical manifiestation of a persons psyche
3. Distorted understanding between self and environment

Self-Actualizing

Human Potential

Needs Pyramid

Marriage

Created

Born in to

essential to form of self

Belifes developed here