Social Inequality

Refers to a pattern that occurs in a society when individuals in that society posess deffering levels of social status, power, and money.

Stratification

This is a structures ranking of entire groups od people. Which perpetuates unequal economic rewards & levels of power in a society.

Systems of Social Stratification

*Karl Marx

Slavery) people are owned by other people.

Caste) hereditary positions winthin the social startification system.

Estate) aka FEUDALISM. Peasants were required to work   the land of a noble. In exchange for military protection, & other services.

Class) structured social inequality based on CAPITALISM & other economic systems.

Karl Marx

System of Social Stratification

Saw these inequalities as a primary contributor of

SOCIAL

EONOMIC

POLITICAL

*Karl Marx*

Argued that as CAPITALISM matures there will be 2 major classes formed.

BOURGEOISIE

is the class that possesses & controls how goods & services are produced.

PROLETARIAT

is comprised of the people who work & are exploited by the capitalist class.

MAX WEBER

STRATIFICATION

Insited that no single dimension defines a persons social position.

3 Elements of Stratification

CLASS

STATUS

POWER

View based on economis production (Class)

& Consumption Patterns (Status). "Lifestyles"

Key element for STATUS DISTINCTION was not how much money a person had, but how one spends it.