BIOL 1001 Chapter : Chapter 28
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Systems of social stratification: groups divided according to property, power, and prestige, major stratification systems: slavery, caste, and class. Slavery: most common in, agricultural societies, least common among, nomads, usually based on, debt, crime, war. Conditions of slavery: in some places, slavery was temporary, freedom purchased, slavery wasn"t necessary inheritable, children adopted by rich families, slaves weren"t necessarily powerless and poor, some owned property. Slavery in the new world and modern slavery: some analysts conclude slavery led to racism, u. s. slave owners developed an ideology to defend slavery, modern child slavery mostly in africa, asia, and south america. Caste: birth determines status, ascribed status, practice endogamy, marriage within own group, ritual pollution rules limit contact between castes, most well known in india. India"s religious castes: untouchables contaminate members of a higher caste, caste system formally abolished in 1949, but remains a part of everyday life. Video: india"s caste system untouchable toilet cleaners: global stratification of women.
