SOC 101 Lecture 32: What Divides Us

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: SOC
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Chenoia Bryant

Document Summary

Social stratification refers to the unequal distribution around the world of the three. This stratification forms the basis of the divisions of society and categorizations of people. In the case of the latter, social classes of people develop, and moving from one stratum to another becomes difficult. Normally property (wealth), power (influence), and prestige (status) occur together. That is, people who are wealthy tend also to be powerful and appear prestigious to others. Plumbers may make more money than do college professors, but holding a professorship is more prestigious than being a (cid:1688)blue collar worker. (cid:1689) The three (cid:1688)ps(cid:1689) form the basis of social stratification in the united states and around the world, so a detailed discussion of these social (cid:1688)rewards(cid:1689) is in order. Karl marx assigned industrial society two major and one minor classifications: the bourgeoisie (capitalist class), petite bourgeoisie (small capitalist class), and proletariat (worker class).