Chp. 6 social stratification Flashcards
What is social stratification
The organization of society into layers reflecting their class or status
What are the patterns of social inequality
Wealth: assets-liabilities
Income/ after tax: amount of & earned
What are the factors of economical success AND influencing income
Degree of natural talent and effort + economical capital + human capital
Social capital+ cultural capital
What is MBM
Market basket measure: cost of basic living needs to enjoy standard living.
Criticized by campaign 2000
3 myths of poverty
1.ppl are lazy
2.ppl are immigrants
3.ppl are trapped in poverty
Individual level explanations of poverty
How do poor people differ from non poor ppl ( inherited or acquired attributes)
Structural explanations of poverty
Social organizations of a society:
lack of good jobs
Social policy
Tax collection and allocation
Ideological perspectives
Negative images creates discrimination and leads to less success finding jobs
Marx conflit theory
-DID NOT view social strat as inevitable.
-Capitalist= no class conflict
-Workers would become class consciousness
-capitalists = crisis of overproduction and underconsumption
Class
Bourgeois: ownership class
Proletariat: working class
What are the 5 critical evaluation of Marx’s conflict theory
1.industrial societies did not polarize into 2 opposed classes
2. Investments in tech = Higher profits for capitalists
3. Efforts from workers resulted in improved living standards
4. Communism did not emerge in highly industrialized countries
5. Averted overproduction and underconsumption
Functionalist theory of Davis and Moore
Believes the inevitability of social stratification
1.some jobs are more important than others
2. Ppl must sacrifice for important jobs
3. Substantial inequality
What was Webers compromise
Argued that we must analyse classes, status groups, and parties as independent bases of social inequality
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Their effect on social mobility (up and down the strat system)
What are the 4 main classes in capitalist societies (Weber)
- Large property owners
2.small property owners - Property-less employees
4.property-less manual workers
What are the parties (Weber)
Political
Military
Scientific
Other bureaucratic orgs.
Control over parties does not depend on wealth
