SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tertiary Sector Of The Economy, Blue-Collar Worker, Secondary Sector Of The Economy
14 Dec 2016
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Stratification is found everywhere and is not modern. Four basic systems of stratification: slavery: form of stratification where some people are owned as property by others (ex. Southern plantations of united states where slaves were denied all civil rights) Slavery was not an economical efficient form of stratification (must have punishment) and. Caste membership is hereditary has implications: No intermarriage between members of different caste groups. 157 of textbook example: estate: form of stratification involving inequalities between groups of people that are established by law. Each position in the hierarchy has different obligations and different rights. Possibility of intermarriage between estates and some degree of social mobility. Feudalism in england (3 estates: clergy, nobility, and commoners) Rich merchants could purchase titles and become aristocrats (move up the social class ladder: class: basis of stratification in modern industrial societies such as canada and the. Compared to other systems, class systems (at least in principle) are:
