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Topic 6 |
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What is Closed system of stratification? |
No social mobility. Status is acquiered through birth.
Slavery Modern Slavery The caste system (indien) The class system (poor countires) |
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Explain some Closed system factors: |
- Forced Labor: forced to work through violence or intimidation.
- Debt Bondage: Where people have to work to pay of a forcing debt
- Global Sex trafficking.
- Servile Marriage: Where women are in marriage without the right to refuse.
- The estate system: Medieval europe. System of hiearchy = Nobility, Clergy and commoners
- The Caste system: No social mobility in the society through ect religion
- The class system: Modern system of classes (rich, poor, working class)
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What is open systems of stratification? |
Social mobility in the class system. Status is acquiered through merit.
Vertical and horizontal mobility |
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What are the factors of persistence of inequalities in social life?
I H S C |
Ideology, Habitualisation, Subjugation, Coercive and Violence |
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Explains Ideology, Habitualisation, Subjugation and Coercive and Violence |
- Ideology: Cultural beliefs that define a particular kind of hierchy as fair and natural. (That is should be inequal)
- Habitualisation is the idea that it should be equal through habits and everyday life. (Good schools pick up wealthy families)
- Subjugation: That truly poor and socially excluded people often lack power and resources to challenge the existing social order
- Coercive and Violence: By using force regulating the poor. |
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Explain social stratification: |
Social system that puts people in a hierarchy.
Marxist and neo-Marxists ideas.
Max Weber: Class, status and power |
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Stratification and technology in global perspective. |
Hunting and gathering societies (no hierarchy)
Horticultural, pastoral and agrarian societies (Higher hierchy systems)
Industrial societies (Lower hierarchy again, more invidualistics)
Post-Indus
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