CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Socioeconomic Status, Petite Bourgeoisie, Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge
2 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
9/4/14 9:32:00 am: stratified = levels exist between people/groups in society. All start out with the same amount of money, everyone has an equal starting point. If you couldn"t inherit parents wealth, then everyone would be born with the same amount of wealth, this would be an example. Forms of stratification: the estate system o politically based system of stratification characterized by limited social mobility. Ex. pre civil war american south or feudal europe. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat (classes as relation to means of production: they have the means to set up production (technology and machinery into making commodities which is the basis of society) The status of hierarchy system is a system of stratification based on social prestige. The elite-mass dichotomy system is a system of stratification that has a governing elite a few leaders who broadly hold the power of society.
