SY101 Chapter Notes -Proletariat, Meritocracy, Bourgeoisie
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Social inequality: the canadian experience in a global context. The layering of nations, or of groups of people within a nation, is called social stratification. It affects our life chances and our orientations of life. Social stratification is a way of ranking large groups of people into a hierarchy that shows their relative privileges. Social stratification is a system in which people are divided into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige. The existence of social stratification is universal; different forms. Four major systems of social stratification: slavery, caste, clan, and class. Slavery was least common among nomads and most common in agricultural societies. Slavery was not always based on racism, but on one of three other factors: debt an individual who could not pay a debt could be enslaved by the creditor, violation of the law, war and conquest.
