ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Stratification, Social Mobility, Discrimination Based On Skin Color
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Some people are denied access to basic resources. There must be ways of managing conflict and persuading individuals to conform to social norms. There is a difference in power between groups. Ideals of the ruling class come to be seen as the norm. As universal ideologies, perceived to benefit everyone, although benefit the ruling class more. We classify people into different groups based on aspects of their physical appearance. In systems of social stratification, these groups may have different levels of power and status. Achieved: choice/permits individuals to alter their rank: class. A class is a category of persons with about the same opportunity to obtain economic resources, power, and prestige. And who are ranked high and low in relation to each other. A social class has a script for how to behave, look, etc. Unequal meeting of two formerly separate groups through colonization, slavery, and other large-group movements: cultural construction.
