SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Status Attainment, High Standard Manufacturing Company
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All human societies have a social structure that divides people into categories based on a combination of achieved and ascribed traits. Achieved traits are acquired through the course of living. Strati cation is the systemic unequal distribution of people across social categories that have di erent levels of access to scarce resources. Strati cation systems order people vertically with a distinct bottom and top. The distance from the bottom to the top is indicated by the size of the gap in access to resources by the upper and lower social categories, the greater the distance the greater the level of strati cation. Increasing levels of technology increases with the level of strati cation within a society. Horticultural societies are more strati ed than hunting and gathering societies, agrarian societies are (end of first lecture notes) Institutionalization of practices that allocate resources unequally across said categories.
