Understanding Social Stratification: Hierarchy, Inequality, and Conflict
Understanding Social Stratification
Inter-action: Social stratification is organized into levels and is related to inequality. (Greece-Rome slavery existed). (Medieval age serfs existed). (The enlightened eighteenth century spoke of inequality). (S. XIX class called social).
Inequality and Hierarchy
Inequality: The inequality that matters is the hierarchy and is based on relations of superiority and inferiority, and are based on complementarity: it needs supplementing and diversity. Individuals are diverse. Inter-action: We cannot live independently of others.
Conclusion: Dignity and Social Hierarchy
We cannot justify any kind of social hierarchy that sweeps away the principle of dignity. Why? For 3 reasons:
- Nature: Some accept the moral high ground.
- Inequality: The result of each social behavior.
- Social Behavior: Accepted by us.
Factors Influencing Social Stratification
Using rules or guidelines that are interacted with the control (the company operates under the principle of control, that everything goes according to a standard or guidelines called decontrol, who exercises has the power to control … = = control standards guidelines come to power throughout society corresponds to this scheme, all factors are related to power, exercised and someone suffers and is affected by this triangle is related to the principle of taxation.
Taxation and Social Alignment
Taxation: 2 concepts:
- Alignment: Derived when a person is obliged to conform to standards and has no capacity to understand the system or the means or understands.
- Conflict: Domain systems, the imposition of a rule involves rejection.
Awareness: A person in a state of conflict auto-analyzes and is able to understand the situation. Leads to subjectivity reaffirming your mistakes and objective: they suggest the system to avoid conflict.
Stratification and Hierarchy
Stratification: Hierarchy Stratification and hierarchy are the same and are divided into 2:
- Quantitative: Comparison made by persons or people groups.
- Qualitative: + object is important if we want to know how a company to do an analysis.
Theoretical Models of Stratification
Theoretical Model of stratification: There are 3 types:
- Dualistic: Influencing factors and determines a society in majorities and minorities.
- Classified Ternary: Introduces an intermediate factor.
- Organic: Avoids opposition: it is multifactorial and highlights the major differences.
Social Relations and Dynamics
Social relations is a dynamic concept, we relate to continuously and keeps changing and the models of social stratification.
Concept of Conflict in Stratification
Concept Conflict: The stratified process is divided into:
- Integration: The communication and inter-action.
- Conflict: What makes it challenging. The social conflict in this process is the more specialized is more loss of social specialization most important social conflicts are national processes and the mobile community.
Social Change and Mobility
Change: Move: The ascent or descent of a person within a stratum. Social Ideology: Conj patterns and forms of society has an importance.
Deviance, Social Control, Values, and Norms
Deviance and Social Control: Values and Standards
- Values: Are the reasons for social action but as a function of what others ask of me. A value translates into a standard and that standard was reflected in socialization: learn, internalize majority are roles I feel safe when learn our roles.
- Values observables.
- Norms not: They are observable.
Conformity and Cohesion
Conformity and Cohesion: The conformity relates to each action and a standard accepted norms in a process of action is necessary to some degree of behavior for society to function. The level of conformity may be greater or less, the key is the value that I meet the standard. Admit you have a degree of deviation of people that do not comply with the norm, the company has diverted grouping.