AN101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Class Consciousness, Achieved Status, Castizo
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An101 chapter 12: inequality in the contemporary world. Stratified societies: societies in which there is a permanent hierarchy that accords some members privileged access to wealth, power, and prestige. At times, stratification is minimal (e. g. chiefdoms chief may be only person with permanently superior status, while social and economic elations among non-chief members may remain relatively egalitarian. More elaborate social stratification found in societies classified as states larger than chiefdom and employs a variety of mechanisms to bind different subgroups together into a hierarchy that regulates each group"s access to wealth, power, and prestige. Class: ranked group within a hierarchically stratified society whose membership is defined primarily in terms of wealth, occupation, and access to power. European social scientists lived in states with a long history of social class divisions reaching back to the. Industrial revolution and french revolution promised to end the oppressive privileges of the ruling class and to equalize everyone"s access to wealth.
