Deja Adams
Soc-102
Prof. Maxson
November 4, 2016
Forms of Stratification Stratification is where there are different levels that exist in the society. The primary focus is the social inequality that is involved in stratification. Since the beginning of time, social stratification has been an issue in societies due the face that it places people in a form of social ranking that identifies where that individual should stand in their society. The inequality lays in the amount of access an individual has to positive or negative opportunities, rewards, resources, and that some people might be given more than others. There are different forms of the social inequality that are present in our environment and that are income, race, and gender inequalities. …show more content…
This system is found in the United States and other industrialized nations. Our society is separated into six groups: upper-upper class, upper class, upper middle class, middle class, lower middle class, and lower class. A person is put into these groups based on their occupation, income, lifestyle, education, and geological home-dwelling. The class system is seen to originate in the split of who controls production and those who actually produce the goods or services in the society. In the Marxist stand point of capitalism, there is a conflict between the bourgeoisie which are the capitalists in our society and then proletariats which are the workers. Marxism focuses on classes as human social relationships which are constantly changing over time which is shared through product processes. The class system is not entirely flexible, but it allows for the most social mobility out of all stratifications. In the class system, a person’s achievements and traits make it easier to have social mobility because the limits are less defined. Although an individual’s place is still heavily influenced by their family or their origin, it’s always possible to move up in this stratification opposed to the caste …show more content…
All of the figures presented in chapter eight provide an explanation of how data is collected on the individual organizing principles of social status with no particularity of race in connection to outcomes to the entirety of society. In particular, Figure 8.3 analyzes poverty’s tolerance on race based on a 29 year period that may be a big indicator for the division between minority groups and Caucasians, however, it does not recognize gender differences in income between races (Larkin, 2015). Diving deeper into chapter eight, figure 8.0 analyzes the breakdown of gender stratification of women in certain careers that require a four year college education such as nursing or teaching that show gender roles for instance gentle, caring, and sweet mannerisms that can limit accessibility to other occupations due to this gender stratification (Larkin, 2015). In figure 8.12, we can see that Marxist Feminist Theory is quite accurate in that there are unfair divisions of labor based on gender. In this figure, men are showed to receive higher earnings with the same education backgrounds and degrees as women have (Larkin,
Soc-102
Prof. Maxson
November 4, 2016
Forms of Stratification Stratification is where there are different levels that exist in the society. The primary focus is the social inequality that is involved in stratification. Since the beginning of time, social stratification has been an issue in societies due the face that it places people in a form of social ranking that identifies where that individual should stand in their society. The inequality lays in the amount of access an individual has to positive or negative opportunities, rewards, resources, and that some people might be given more than others. There are different forms of the social inequality that are present in our environment and that are income, race, and gender inequalities. …show more content…
This system is found in the United States and other industrialized nations. Our society is separated into six groups: upper-upper class, upper class, upper middle class, middle class, lower middle class, and lower class. A person is put into these groups based on their occupation, income, lifestyle, education, and geological home-dwelling. The class system is seen to originate in the split of who controls production and those who actually produce the goods or services in the society. In the Marxist stand point of capitalism, there is a conflict between the bourgeoisie which are the capitalists in our society and then proletariats which are the workers. Marxism focuses on classes as human social relationships which are constantly changing over time which is shared through product processes. The class system is not entirely flexible, but it allows for the most social mobility out of all stratifications. In the class system, a person’s achievements and traits make it easier to have social mobility because the limits are less defined. Although an individual’s place is still heavily influenced by their family or their origin, it’s always possible to move up in this stratification opposed to the caste …show more content…
All of the figures presented in chapter eight provide an explanation of how data is collected on the individual organizing principles of social status with no particularity of race in connection to outcomes to the entirety of society. In particular, Figure 8.3 analyzes poverty’s tolerance on race based on a 29 year period that may be a big indicator for the division between minority groups and Caucasians, however, it does not recognize gender differences in income between races (Larkin, 2015). Diving deeper into chapter eight, figure 8.0 analyzes the breakdown of gender stratification of women in certain careers that require a four year college education such as nursing or teaching that show gender roles for instance gentle, caring, and sweet mannerisms that can limit accessibility to other occupations due to this gender stratification (Larkin, 2015). In figure 8.12, we can see that Marxist Feminist Theory is quite accurate in that there are unfair divisions of labor based on gender. In this figure, men are showed to receive higher earnings with the same education backgrounds and degrees as women have (Larkin,