Class, Race, and Gender Structured Inequalities Class, race, and gender organize society as a whole and create a variety of contexts for family living through their unequal distribution of social opportunities. They are forms of stratification that foster group-based inequalities. They distribute social resources and opportunities differently. Life chances They are relational systems of power and subordination. They are interconnected systems of inequality.
Since the beginning of civilizations there as always been social stratification or an arrangement in social classes. For instance, there would be the lower class, middle class and of course upper class. Then there is also social inequality. Based on documents from 1000 B.C.E through 465 B.C.E, I can analyze the causes of, and responses to, social inequality during the Classical Age, as well as explaining how one’s status within society influenced one’s perspective of events in that society. Some of the causes included, the extreme power to a single leader, and the desire for power, while some responses would be hatred towards the leader and hard work to stay alive, all depending on one’s perspective due to their status in a society.
Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess different Marxist views of the relationship between crime and social class. Traditional Marxism sees capitalist society as divided into two classes: the ruling capitalist class (or bourgeoisie) who own the means of production, and the working class (or proletariat), who’s alienated labour the bourgeoisie exploit to produce profit. Marxism is a structural theory. It sees society as a structure in which the economic base (the capitalist economy) determines the shape of the superstructure, which is made up of all the other social institutions, including the state, the law and the criminal justice system. Their function is to serve ruling-class interests and maintain the capitalist economy.
Max Weber, compared to Karl Marx, didn’t only focus on classes. He said that some people have more power than others. He separated the power in three forms: Economical (class), Social (status) and Legal (party). These forms of power follow different logics but could be interconnected. Individuals are unequal in the three areas.
Social stratification is a structured ranking of people by a society, of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal rewards and power in a society. Stratification has a lot to do with race and ethnicity, both your race and ethnicity has a lot to do with how people are treated. Gender also plays a big role in social stratification as well, when it comes to men and women who really chooses where the men and women work, sure they have a choice but ultimately it is society that chooses who works where. Think about it for
Our society is divided along class, race, gender and other variations. There are different sociological theories to explain these social stratifications. Our society is in conflict with social order and equal opportunities for different social classes. We discussed structured stratification as a social pattern. It implies there are inequalities that are society rather than biological factors.
Review Questions What is the Davis-Moore thesis? It is a thesis that states social stratification has good consequences for society. They argued that societies have many different occupations or take in them and jobs differ in their importance to society. List and define three different systems of stratification in society. It's based off of wealth, property, and power.
He identified in the industrial society of his time there were two social classes. The bourgeoisies/ capitalists, these were the small powerful group who owned factories and the employments and the proletariat. A much larger poorer group of ‘worker’ the people employed by capitalists. These were called the proletariat. His view was basically seen as social class would always be in conflict and owners would want higher profit and the workers would want higher wages.
It is the grouping of people according to differences in income, occupation, power, privilege, manner of living and others. Social classes represent the major form of stratification found in modern industrial societies.
This can be through increase voting power along racial lines. That change in racial balance may not be followed by a rebalance in wealth as described in the last chapter which could cause an interesting social dynamic where an ever shrinking minority controls the majority of the wealth. Many speculate that this will then be followed by a multiracial mix of society. It would seem that it will become more and more difficult to define one’s self as belonging to a specific race, but are made up of smaller and smaller percentages of many races. It will also become tougher for people to define or categorize people or groups by skin color or appearance are those traits begin to melt together.