SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Caste System In India, Social Stratification, Socioeconomic Status
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Open stratification system: stratification system in which merit rather than inheritance (ascribed characteristics) determines social rank. Is reflected in a meritocracy: positions are achieved, not ascribed. Stratification system in which inheritance rather than merit determines social rank. Although canada is in principal a meritocracy, ascribed statuses still play an important role. You are usually measured by education, occupation etc. Several theories or explanations of social stratification. Accounts offered by marx, weber, davis and moore, lenski, wright, and parkin. Most prominent occupational shift over 20th century was decline in agricultural occupations. Also decline (albeit less) in other natural resource-based occupations (e. g. , forestry, Increase in proportion of occupations requiring higher education. Rise in average incomes (until early 1980s) Greater class diversity, not polarization of classes. Gender-based labour market stratification has continued: since middle of last century, proportion of women in labour force has risen, but mostly in low-paid, low status pink-collar sector (clerical, sales, and service occupations)
