SOC101 (Chapters 7-8)

    Social Stratification and Social Class

       Power Point Presentation for Chapter 7

   Power Point presentation for Chapter 8           

Learning Objectives:

1.      Understand the concept of social stratification and its different dimensions; Learn how to measure social mobility and social inequality.

2.      Describe different types of social stratification system experienced by human societies, and analyze the class system in the US.

3.      Understand the stratification systems from different sociological perspectives.

4.      Understand the concept of global stratification, and the factors that contribute to the development of the global stratification system.

Terms to be learned

social stratification          social mobility                       culture of poverty             feminization of poverty             class consciousness            false consciousness

intragenerational mobility     intergenerational mobility

structural mobility            relative mobility

socioeconomic status (SES)     ideology hegemony 

bourgeoisie                    proletariat                    

global stratification          dependency theory

colonialism                    neocolonialism                      the world system              primary economy

secondary economy             tertiary economy

multinational corporation

Lecture Outline:

1.    stratification: closed vs open

2.    social mobility and its measures: intergenerational mobility

                                     intragenerational mobility

                                     structure mobility

                                     relative mobility

3.    Social stratification systems: slavery

                               caste system

                               estate system and class system

4.    The bases of social stratification: Karl Marx and Max Weber

5.    Why is social stratification universal?

6.    Global stratification and its causes

7.    Social class in America: different models

8.    Social class and its consequences

9.    Social inequality and poverty in America

10.          Explanations of poverty

11. Maintain stratification:                                           ideology hegemony/cultural industry