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Social stratification and a stratified world?
Market size by GDP, 1995(Size of country indicates GDP)
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Social Stratification
A class hierarchy
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Marx -Social Stratification – A Two class hierarchy – based on economic
ownership
• The Bourgeoisie(The ownersand controllers of the means of production)
• The Proletariat(the non owners or workers)
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Marx - Conflict of interests in a two class society
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Weber’s Social Stratification
A four-class hierarchy based on economics, power and status
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The Upper class - wealthy and
powerful
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The Middle class – Non-manual workers
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The Working class – mainly manual workers
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The Underclass - very poor, e.g.the unemployed and homeless
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A stratified World?
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The world stratified into two layers?
Rich World
Poor World
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The world stratified into four layers?
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Put simply - countries roughly break along a class hierarchy e.g.
Upper Class Countries
USA, Japan, Singapore, European Union, Australia, New Zealand
Middle Class Countries
Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey
Working Class Countries (developing)
China, India, Africa, Ghana, Nigeria Pakistan, Indonesia
Underclass Countries
States such as , Albania, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh
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Stratification and social mobility
• Just as individuals and classes can be economically and socially mobile, some sociologists say that countries are economically and socially mobile.
• NB Besides class inequalities gender, ethnicity, age and locality are also dimensions of inequality both between and within countries.