SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James Truslow Adams, Caste System In India, Lower Middle Class

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

Document Summary

The bottom line: inequality is a fundamental feature of social. In our society, some people (cid:1) have a lot, some have a fair amount, and others not so much. In other societies, many people have much less than even poor americans. These differences reflect hierarchies: us armed forces rankings. Different societies rank people in different ways: the indian caste system. 4 casts: bhramin kshatryia - viasya - sudra outcast/untouchable (not in pyramid/no caste) A brahmin woman born into an inherited caste. You do not leave that caste, your children are in that caste, etc. This doesn"t bother americans because we view success as a product of individual effort. Wrote dozens of popular novels about poor boys who became successful. How much money do you have (income, kind of work you do (white collar jobs are better than blue collar), what education you have, wealth (what you inherited)) Karl marx (1818-1883: saw society as a product of economic arrangements.