SOC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erik Olin Wright, Small Business, Equal Opportunity
15 Dec 2015
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Social stratification social stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources. Those at the top have the most control over social and economic resources. Those at the bottom have the least control. In north america, sociologists use socioeconomic status as a measure of social inequality. In europe, sociologists use social class to measure social inequality. In both cases, a person"s occupation is used to identify their social location (cid:2) (cid:2) Sociologists don"t agree on how many social classes there are. Proletariat: the working class: example 2. Managerial class (control over means of production) employees) Working class (skilled and unskilled workers: example 3. Class i: professionals, and managers and administrators in large companies. Class ii: managers and administrators in small companies. Sociologists don"t agree on how ses should be composed. Usually an index composed of three measures: income, education, status or prestige. The weighting each differs from one ses measure to another (cid:2)
