SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Social CLass
Upper Class
This refers to the very rich.
They consist of the elite families who are successful in agriculture, industry or government.
TYPES:
1. New ( Noveau ) rich
2. Traditional Upper Class
Subdivided into:
1. Upper- upper
2. Lower Upper
3. Upper middle
Social Classes
Lower Class
Middle Class
Education is the main indicator of social status since majority has less personal properties.
There is a strong preference for less-paying white collar jobs to higher-paying but less honorific manual jobs.
Subdivision of the class is LOWER MIDDLE
They lack certain qualifications which are necessary for upward mobility.
Subdivided into:
1. Upper lower
- working class
- education is limited and little prestige is attached to their work
2. Lower lower
- they get the worst of what society has to offer
- they have the least education and the least income
The Basic Components of Social Stratification
Roles
Social Classes in the Philippines
1. UPPER
2. MIDDLE
3. LOWER
1. ASCRIBED
- the role is assumed through heredity, sex, race, or class at birth.
2. ACHIEVED
- it is attained through effort or marriage.
1. SOCIAL STATUS
- the social standing of a person within a social class or in the entire social stratification.
2. ROLES
-the expected behavior patterns that correspond with a status.
Basic Principles in Social Stratification
Concepts that define Social Stratification
Objective Dimensions of Stratification
1. SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION
-the distinct conditions of individuals which does not necessarily imply unequal treatment or ranking in society.
2. SOCIAL INEQUALITY
-the condition of unequal treatment or ranking in society.
The dimensions that govern stratification are economic, political, and social.
1. It is characteristic of society.
2. It persists over generations.
3. It is universal but variable from one society to another.
4. It involves not only inequality but also beliefs.
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Karl Marx
Weber and Durkheim
- the history of all societies as marked with the struggles of social classes.
- capitalist/bourgeoisie--those who own or control the means of production (land, factories, transportation sources, banks, etc.)
- working class/proletariat-those who survive by selling their labor power (capacity to work) to owners
The centrality of class conflict is likened to the struggles of their times.
internal division into a hierarchy of distinct social group, each having specific life chances and distinctive style of life