SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Stratification, Class Stratification
27 Jan 2017
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A form of social stratification in which a society tends to divide into separate classes whose members have different access to resources and power. Not strictly economic, although it does involve income, accumulation of wealth & status. Geographic region and surrounding culture also plays a role in what class you are in: some parts of a country have resources that do well for the country, global differences in geographic locations that separate the classes. Small town activities have different statuses than city -> being the manager in a bowling alley in a small town can give you status, while in a large city it will not: hierarchy of social classes: Upper class > upper middle > lower middle class > working class > working poor > Based on the amount of people that exist within each class, however the numbers have changed over time. The centre of this pyramid is where most people fit in (middle class)
