SOC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Class Consciousness, John Kenneth Galbraith, Vaishya
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To understand various views on universality of social stratification. To understand maintenance of stratification by the elite. Social stratification is the division of the nations or even the layers of groups of people within a nation. Social stratification is a system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative property, power and prestige. The system stresses on ranking a group at large rather than an individual. However these inequities maybe differ with the society itself. Gender is considered as a basis for stratification universally. The essential characteristics of slavery are that some individual owns other individual(s). All civilizations and religious scripts deal with slavery. According to historian gerda lerner, women were the first to be enslaved throughput warfare. They can also be free: slaves need not be powerless and poor: however the instance of slaves being rich and powerful is rare.
