ANT 1101 Lecture : Class 11. Society, Stratification+Inequality.docx
21 Nov 2012
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Social stratification: institutionalized inequality resulting in some groups receiving differential access to power, wealth and prestige. Power: the ability to reach personal, financial, and professional goals regardless of obstacles. Wealth: accumulation of financial resources, material possessions, wives and children, and the potential for future earnings. Prestige: the social esteem others hold for an individual. Stratified societies: societies in which ranking and inequality among members vary. Egalitarian cultures: groups in which members enjoy equal access to resources and positions. Minority group: is a group that is subjected to prejudice and discrimination, while the dominant group holds greater power, prestige and privilege. Normalized: made to seem natural, normal, necessary, and inevitable. Hierarchy: a system of ranking (things or people) according to different criteria. Typically, that are a worldview, or that explain a worldview. It is often (not always) characteristic of a culture: shared ideas about how the world works, and shared values about what is good, bad, appropriate etc.
