ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nationstates, Social Science, Oscar Lewis
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Chapter 6: the cultural construction of social hierarchy. Social stratification/ social hierarchy the ordering and ranking of individuals within society. Those at the top of the hierarchy are generally afforded more power, wealth, prestige, or privileges in a society. Hierarchies can be based on race, gender, class, caste, ethnicity, national affiliation, or other factors. Social hierarchy is not an inevitable feature of human societies. Race a culturally constructed form of identity and social hierarchy, race refers to the presumed hereditary, phenotypic characteristics of a group of people. These physical or phenotypic differences are often erroneously correlated with behaivoural attributes. Class a form of identity informed by perceptions of an individual"s economic worth or status. It is also a form of social hierarchy. Social class refers to perceptions of an individual"s standing or status in society, normally based on economic criteria, status, or other factors.
