ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Social Class, Class Consciousness, Achieved Status
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Occurs when one has access to most of the things valued in a culture. Ability to make others do what you want through authority or force. Respect and esteem granted to an individual by others. Obvious inequalities in access to wealth, power and prestige. Access to rewards is difficult to achieve because of race, ethnicity, Symbolic indicators (activities and possessions) are clearly visible. Some groups aren"t able to access their own nation"s goods and services class and/or gender. Because they hold allegiance to their tribe or ethnic group. A few groups enjoy tremendous luxuries at the expense of other. Those few social groups who do enjoy all those luxuries , fail. Consists of hierarchical relationships among different groups as though to distribute resources/goods equitably groups" labour they were arranged in layers or strata. Stratified groups may be unequal on a variety of measures, including material resources, power, human welfare, education and symbolic attributes.
