SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Caste System In India, Social Stratification, Gini Coefficient

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Society assigns different values/power/influence/prestige to different sorts of people. Different kinds of living (housing) based on social stratification. Very specific rules in the military regarding rank who can say what to who and give order to who, etc. Traditional indian caste system ranking of the people in this society. People in the different castes are assigned different roles in the society. Brahmans are usually priests and high power roles. The untouchables are the one"s who are doing the worst, disgusting jobs. Wrote a bunch of books directed at kids. Tells stories of upward mobility from really low class. In these books anybody can get ahead can start from the bottom and move to the top if you are disciplined and work hard. Created by a popular historian who wrote a book called the spirit of. His publisher wouldn"t let him use american dream as his book title. One of the big theorists in the history of sociology.