SOC 1305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Herbert J. Gans, Class Conflict, Social Inequality
14 Mar 2017
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Chapter 5: stratification in the united states and. Social inequality when members of a society enjoy different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power. Structued ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power stratification. Evident in income salaries and wages and wealth material assets. Four general systems of stratification: slavery, castes, estates, and social classes. Most extreme form of legalized social inequality slavery. Enslaved individuals are owned by other people. Ancient greece > slaves were captives of war or piracy. Us and latin america > ascribed status based on race. Now > illegal in all nations in the u. n. Now > bonded laborers in 3rd world countries, illegal immigrants forced into labor, human trafficking of slave labor and sex slaves. Castes hereditary systems of rank, usually religiously dictated, that tend to be fixed and immobile. India has four major castes, or varnas with a fifth caste, the untouchables, so lowly that they have no place.
