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Race
Colour
Money Inheritance
Education
Marriage
These ways are linked to factors such as wealth, power and
prestige.
Key terms in the study of
stratification
Social Status; ascribed and achieved status
Power
Prestige
Wealth
Life Chances
What do you understand from those terms?
Social Status
Ascribed Status:
i. Determined by birth and cannot be changed for e.g.
race, place or family.
ii. Pre-industrial societies were characterized by ascribed
status
iii.Ascribed status has less influence in modern society
Achieved status
Estates
Caste
Slavery
Class
How was the Caribbean Stratified?
Slavery and the Plantation System
Middle Class
INSTITUTIONS
Working
GROUPS OFClass
PEOPLE
INDIVIDUALS
The Upper Class
Marriage
Higher education which will provide you with a well
paying job.
Inherited family wealth.(Intergenerational mobility)
Luck, talent. e.g entertainers and athletes winning the
lottery
Education
Education as the new basis for class
formation
Most popular route to mobility for the majority of people
today.
Education is more accessible to all in modern societies.
Education is seen as the only way out for the lower class.
Education is entirely responsible for the new class formations
e.g. the intelligentsia and the workforce in business, technology.
It has also created new occupational types and sub-types
resulting in many new white and blue collar jobs.
Though secondary and post secondary education it provides
Education as the new basis for class
formation
Education, it provides access to opportunities and
opens up a path for upward social mobility for lower
income earners.
This helps many to move form to skilled workers and
move from the working class into the middle-class.
Money wealth and income remain the main criteria
that stratify society into social groups.
Education as the new basis for class
formation
Social mobility is possible and education has helped
many to achieve it.
However, there are still inequalities in society that are
entrenched which has caused some groups status to
remain the same.
Summary