Posting by Ji yeon Kim(김지연)-Week 9

Introduction to Sociology/Stratification

1. Summary

Sociologists study about stratification and inequality for a long period of time. Stratification is arranging people in hierarchical way. Inequality is having unequal access to some resources because of limited resources. Sociologists always wondered where did inequality originate and what is the reason that inequality continues.

 

*Socioeconomic Status(SES)

There are three traits of individuals which is power, property and prestige. Power can be divided into legitimate power(authority) and illegitimate power(coercion). Property is more large concept than income because It is total of one's possessions. It is good indicator of measuring social stratification than income. Prestige has same meaning of reputation and esteem. Nowadays, prestige is related with one's occupation.

 

*Social class in America

There are upper-upper class, lower-upper class, upper-middle class,lower-middle class,working poor and underclass in American. Because of the Great Recession, gap between rich and poor has increased.

 

*Origin of Inequality and Private Property

We can find inequality when hunter/gatherer society changed into horticultural/pastroalist society. In hunter/gathere society, small group of people had almost same belongings and jobs. But, In horticultural/pastroalist society, large group of people traded with each other and This time, division of labour settled down and It led to surplus of goods. This made inequality.

When Industrialization begun in England, there was 'collectivity' but in the late 15th century in Europe, 'private property' began to spread and famous. The place where once was collective space began to divided up into private takings. In 17 and 18th century, people thought there should be equality in society..

 

*The Persistence of Inequality

There are three reasons why inequality persist. First, the rich and powerful retain the system of inequality. Karl Marx criticized about this. He aruged that rich and powerful have a big influence on social institutions. Second, culture teaches the acceptance of inequality. Americans think rich and powerful are more deserving as they are smart and skilled. So, They think inequality as justified. Lastly, people are socialized to accept their position in life.

 

*Elimination of Inequality

Is it possible to eliminate inequality while society commit inequality?

 

*Dominanat-Perspectives

1)Structural-Functionalism on Stratification

In this theory, Stratification and Inequality are inevitable and good to society. but, there are some problems which is difficult to determine the functional importance of any job only in stratification. And this theory says stratification system is rational and fair as people who are qualified and skilled deserve so but, in real life It does not function so. This theory also thinks It is fair that some chosen minorities have power and wealth.

2)Conflict Theories

Stratification system is dysfunctional and not beneficial. This theory think inequality is not inevitable, It is made by people who want to protect their power and wealth.

3)Towards a More Egalitarian Society

Marxists argue people have to work according to their ability and talent AND people must get the fruits of this labour according to thier need. Also, they think democracy is more effective in decision making.

 

*Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender

When natural disaster appear, by class,race,and gender,life rates are different. For example, In the sinking of the Titanic, 60% of first class people survived otherwise only 24% of third class survived.

 

*Capitalism, class, privilege, and oppression

Capitalism increased inequality based on stratification system. It causes competition, inequality, stress and anxiety among people in middle and low class because the opportunity to move upward is little.

 

*Capitalism, race and gender inequality

Capitalism also takes advantages of race and gender ineuquality.

 

*Points of View: Micro-Meso-Macro

1)Micro-level Prestige and Influence

Stratification system and Inequality affect to individual. By clothing,fancy belongings, Each person differentiated themselves by other person.

2)Meso-level Access to Resources

Our positions and connections in organizations and institutions lie within the stratification system.

3)Macro-Level Factors Influencing Stratification

Our position in the international economic system in the world shapes our opportunities throughout our life and our access to important resources.

 

*Consequences of Inequality

There are differnces in many aspects of life opportunities based on stratification. People who belong in low-class have fewer chances in education, health, insurances and so on than the rich.

 

*Global Inequality

Why are the poor still poor? Who is to blame for poverty?

1) Poor people still poor becasue of their traditional beliefs. They follow tradtional economic systems while modern world follow modern economic systems.

2) Poor people still poor becasue developed countries exploited developing countries. Poor countries have large debt so that they cannot develop at all.

3) In world systems theory, world economy system is divided into three types: Core,Semiperipheral, and Peripheral.

 

 

 

2. My opinion and Interesting points

 

Since I was young, I believe duty of government is to eliminate inequality in society as it is unfair thing. So, after I read this chapter, It is quite surprising and sad that social institutions cause inequality. It is also surprising that some people think inequality is inevitable because the rich and powerful deserve more qualified things. However,as we know, in real life, wealth and power does not purely attained by their efforts. Some are rich by birth. Therefore, I want to support Conflict Theories in stratification system and inequality in society. I can find the answer of why inequality does not disappear in conflict theory what Karl Marx insisted. The rich and powerful protect the system of inequality to retain their position.

 

3.Questions and Discussion Points

 

There is a system of special case in society such as special admission and army exemption or exception. Is this system inequal or equal? Let's discuss about it together.

 

 

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SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

-you can see flow of social stratification in this video clip. It is cute, fun and easy! Take a look at it.

Posting by FANGSIKUI（방사기）W9

 Summary

 Class refers to people born in different social strata, some of the same characteristics and forming social groups. the same class into levels due to different socio-economic status.

 Class with the emergence and development of class, different classes and at different stages of development and the formation of different social classes. Slave slave owner class divided into nobles slave trade slave-owners; the feudal society of landlord is classified into large, medium and small landowners; bourgeois capitalist society is divided into large, middle and petty bourgeoisie, the proletariat into industrial workers, craft workers, shop workers

 Division of class and class divisions are interconnected, class divide is further analysis of class, which can not be divided class instead of the class divide. Some bourgeois sociology concept class dissolved in the concepts of class, in order to conceal the essence of the capitalist class. Different segments of the same class, political attitudes are not all the same. Sectors within the Division to learn more about the various classes of different social groups and the relationships between various classes, clear understanding of the situation of the development of class and class struggle, can provide the basis for the development of strategies and tactics.

Posting by Ji Min Kim(W(9))

#SUMMAY

Stratification in society means that the dividing layer. Stratification is placed on the basis of economic power. Stratification has a long history of sociology, including income inequality. We think the key word for the word capital of inequality perty attention.

Sociologists also defines a layered as socio-economic status.

Max Weber saw the elements of the Stratification of three.

The first is power. The force is meant to get someone's abilities. However, that Force yen when using this power illegally.

The second property. It means the sum of his possessions and regular income.

The third is reputation. Meaning is their position and reputation in the community. It is primarily associated with the job. In general, three indicators based on startification that judge each other.

society is the recession, the gap between rich and poor is compounded further.

The origin of the inequality began paleolithic era. each other groups did big deal. They didn't try to each other at a profit.

horticultural / pastoralist community has food production as well as other things. Attempting to pack a profit each other. gradually, possessive of personal is stornger and inequity get worse.

Sociologist Joel said three reasons the continuation of inequality. The first reason is the law protects a system of inequality. The second is the acceptance of cultural awareness causes inequality. The rich man poor, but diligent attempts to lazy thinking. The third has already been socialized in our lives. People are already doing the criteria for sharing tier. Opposition theorist of the layered argued that a lot of people are trying located in the layered on top.

In capitalism there are racial and gender inequality. Women and blacks were used as cheaper labor costs. The results of inequality shows that variety. Mainly poor, there is a little opportunity but rich layer is a layer is really a lot of opportunities. Many theorists think startification have had a large impact on poverty. Dependency theorists, but I think it did not develop because of debt. In addition, neighboring countries are offering their labor to key countries.

 

#Interesting point

I think inequality began middle age. but inequality began Paleolithic era.

Similarly an article write about i usually think inequality.

For example, poor people has a little opportunity but the richer has a many opportunity.

 

#question

I have been involved in the group subject to the ct habitus in now. Whether cultural inequalities exist,  I'd like to hear your thoughts. Korea has also been included in the neighboring countries. I do not think this country called Korea the labor force him to another country.

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W9: stratification_Moon Jungun(문정언)

Summary

Stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of people in a society.

[Socioeconomic Status]
Socioeconomic status reflect three characteristics of individuals: power, property, and prestige. Power refers to someone's ability to get ithers to do his/her will, regardless of whether or not they want to. Property, as used in this context, refers to the sum total of one’s possessions as well as their regular income. Prestige refers to the reputation or esteem associated with one’s position in society.

[Social Class in America]
Inequality is long ago, and the idea that there should vbe equality in society emerged in the 17th and 18th centries in the writings of Hobbes and Locke.
First, the rich and powerful protect the system of inequality. Second, culture teaches the acceptance of inequality. Third, people are socialized to accept their position in life. Finally, police, courts, and prisons work together to protect the system of inequality. Much of society seems to encourage and protect the system of inequality.

[Dominant Perspectives]
-Structural-Functionalism ion Stratification
Stratification and inequalities are inevitable and beneficial to society. There are several obvious problems with this approach to stratification. First, it is difficult to determine the functional importance of any job, as the accompanying specialization and inter-dependence make every position necessary to the overall operation. Second, this approach assumes that the system of stratification is fair and rational, and that the ‘best’ people end up on top because of their superiority. Another problem with this approach is that it assumes that only a few ‘chosen’ people should have all the power and all the material wealth, rather than distributing it equitably, or distributing it to those who need it most.

-Conflict Theorists on Stratification
Conflict theorists believe that this competitive system, together with the way the game is ‘fixed’, ends up creating and perpetuating stratification systems. Competition and inequality are not inevitable but are created and maintained by people.

[Points of View: Micro-Meso-Macro]
-Micro-level Prestige and Influence
Stratification occurs in small groups and face-to-face interaction. Throughout our lives, wealth, power, and prestige are given to individuals who have knowledge and access to important information and influential people in society.

-Meso-level Access to Resources
Our positions and connections in organizations and institutions lie within the stratification system. This impacts how we experience life and how we interact with other individuals and groups.

-Macro-Level Factors Influencing Stratification
Our position in the international economic system in the world shapes our opportunities throughout our life and our access to important resources. Macro level factors such as policies implemented by the World Bank and International Monetary fund impact the job opportunities, prices of food, water, and electricity, and day to day life for citizens in Cape Verde and around the world.

-Consequences of Inequality
What class we belong to directly relates to our individual life chances. The wealthy and well-educated are much more likely to be in good health, and have access to good medical care than the poor. The poor have shorter life expectancies and are at greater risk for chronic illnesses.

Opinion&Question

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Stratification is symbol of inequality. some people said stratification is better and better, but i don't agree with that opinion. In this time, here Korea, we can find obvious stratification. We, ordinary people work our finger to the born, and pay our taxes. But Soonsil Choi, person close to president, very easily live idle. I think, it is example of stratification of political power.
And this is explained by link: https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%B5%9C%EC%88%9C%EC%8B%A4%20%EA%B2%8C%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8

Posting by HyeonMin Kim (W9)

Summary

 W9's topic is stratification. Stratification refers to distinguished the social class at human. Fundamentally it uses the wealth as a crterion when divides the class. Sociologists define stratification with socioeconomic status. It has three characteristics of individuals(power, property, and prestige).
Power: someone's ability to get others to do his/her will, regardless of whether or not they want to
Property: the sum total of one's possessions as well as their regular income
Prestige: the reputation or esteem associated with one's position in society
and the legitimate power is called authority, the illegitimate power is called coercion.
 In America, society has the gap between the rich and poor. It is inequality. And it is continued. America has three lines of straified. Capitalism increases levels of inequality.




Opinion

 Today's society has very many inequality. It caused the quarrel, the struggler, the war, and the other many troubles. Besides, the inequality is increasing now. It is really serious problems. Most social inequaltiy was started the stratification. Stratification makes worseness society.



Discussion

 Social stratification is not good. But the stratification is bad always?

Posting 9, joon hee Lee

Summary

Stratification means hierarchical arrangement in society. As a result, the stratification is caused by the inequality. Inequality is caused by scarce resources are unfairly distributed. And inequality is very diverse (economic, racial, religious, gender). Sociologists used long time to study the stratification. They have studied extensively such as ‘the causes of inequality’, ‘why inequality is justified’, ‘resolution of inequality’.

In most cases, stratification has mainly based on socioeconomic status. In this case, this is reflected in the personal power, property, prestige and more.

The first inequality began in the settled life. Unlike hunting/gathering life, people except for one that produced food can concentrate on other things except for one that produce food. Since the concept of barter had appeared in society, and soon emerged inequality. The concept of equality appeared with the advent of the Enlightenment ideology. This was the role that tells citizens the reason why we are unequal is because of social structure.

In functionalism, sociologists think inequality conduct the right function elements in society. Also, they consider the phenomenon of stratification is inevitable and beneficial in society. On the other hand, the conflict theory prescribes stratification to be harmful to society. Inequality is thought that maintained by the people, not inevitable.

Inequality appears at the global level. This appears in the income gap between the country and quality of life (poverty, health, education) difference and so on. The reason this happens is a matter of national systems, the exploitation of developed countries

Opinion&Question

Reading the pharase; 'Inequality and poverty didn’t just drop down from the sky, like an apple does from a tree', I think about the stratification in korea. I think there are many inequality in Korea society. And the gap of status becomes bigger more and more. if this phenomenon continue, our society will be waver seriously.
Then, where is the solution? I think it is 'Combat corruption'. Our society, we lived in, especially, lack of integrity including from enterprise to government institiution. the reason is  why think this 'correct investigation is conducted in society'. So, I thought we can do reduce gap between status is 'Monitor the admistration' and 'Clear the ivestigation process'. And, anything else we can imagine??

Posting by Hyojeong Hwangbo(황보효정)_W9

Summary:

Stratification is a phenomenon in which the society forming the hierarchical to people.
Stratification is causing inequality.
As the class is held social inequality may persist and reproduce.
Inequality occurs depending on the race, gender, etc.
To the appropriate welfare for those suffering from poverty is a very important to Mitigation of inequality.

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Opinion:
I think the stratification phenomenon now seems a lot, especially noticeable in Korea.
To avoid the excessive stratification and to block being returned to its past class society, we all will have to use force in order to eliminate inequalities.


Question:
In order to reduce inequity in the society caused by the stratification, I wonder what are the things that the government could be and the things we can do.

Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_ruling_class

Posting by Cho yunju (W9)

Stratification of Janus: 

functionalist point of view and conflict theory.

Intro; What does Stratification mean in Social?

  Ninth posting of this time, was content about the hierarchy.

Stratification, it is routine in the capitalist society, South Korea, but a matter of course.

Eventually, I tried to read more and more interested in Stratification because a particular incident in Korea that have occurred recently.

The begin of the inequality and private property, occurred from gathering hunting society to the horticulture society.

Two theory about Stratification

  These inequalities are largely divided into two viewpoints.

Functionalist, believes that it is natural for such inequality (hierarchical).

Qualified person in the most functionally important work, ban will be able to accumulate more wealth.

For example, environmental sweeper is a simple labor, the doctor argues wearing advanced technology associated with it, that we should put the difference in terms of after course salary for the hard work. (But I think there’s work value are same) It also argue that people can be reversed in poverty and wealth effort.

However, conflict theory, claims Hierarchy is the harmful thing and the dysfunction of society.

Stratification, rich people in the incomplete the poor people, of making and more accumulated wealth.

In addition, the social system that has been divided into winners and losers make is impoverished society.

I think that two theory has correct and wrong face.

First, In the functionalist point of view, efficiency, that put the difference in salary depending on the capabilities that the day is, empathy. However, Society in hierarchy can’t be changed simply efforts alone.

And from conflict principle point of view, I agree that poor become to incomplete poor people, Rich people can accumulate the more wealth.

At length, it also have sentence "poverty is passed down".

 However, this if all of the world fallen by equality, even would decrease efficiency of workers who worked hard. And, national or global economy would be sluggish.
Such as a North Korea

My experience and question

We are always worried fallen into such dilemma.

This is also reason that why sociology exist.

Now I can be understood in more detail theory of this stratification by virtue of the test study.

By the way, here I have a question. Currently, it is that it is not possible to eradicate the hierarchy that is dig in the capitalist world.

And, of course, but such inability also maintain these inequalities, 

How it is possible to prevent lowering the efficiency of the workers and not maximized inequality?

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nineth week posting by Hyeon Jong, Song(송현종)

nineth week posting: Stratification

Name: Hyeon Jong Song

Date: October 29th, 2016

 

1) Summary

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Today article deals with stratification. And I summarize it. Stratification mean that hierarchical arrangement of people in society. Stratification cause inequality in accordance with the socioeconomic status. Socioeconomic status is divided into power, property, and prestige. And there are two dominant perspective to see stratification. Structural functionalism and conflict theories on stratification. Structural functionalism argue that stratification and inequality are evitable and benefit to society. Stratification contribute in some way to the larger system’s overall stability. But this theory has some criticism. This theory has difficulty in deciding important status and focus on high rank people. Conflict theory argue that Stratification benefits the rich and powerful people and bad to society. Class, race, gender and capitalism have effect on stratification.

 

2) Mention

I have critical mention to stratification. High class people take advantage of stratification maliciously. For example, recent incident in korea, Mrs. Jung has high class parents. So, She enter a good university using a illegal method. And even if she does not go to university, she has A grade. This incident that ignore students must be eliminated in society. And these case exist in society openly. So, I argue that stratification is a case that must be eliminated.

 

3) Question

I have a question for you. Do you have a experience stratification?

Posting By Ko Minjin-W9. (고 민진)

1) The best memorable content in Week9.

In this week, a posting subject is "stratification." stratification is a theme that I have seen on a book or television since I was young. Social stratification is a social stratification in society. There are values that are important to each society. For example, in communist countries they think authority is best Value, in capitalism countries they think economic power is best value. Thus, social scarcity values exist in each society, and distribution of these values is socially organized. Institutionalizedin equality is called social stratification.

There are many example of stratification. For example, there are slavery, Karst and identification system. An example of slavery is the ancient Roman Empire. Slavery is literally Master and slave. A slave is the property of his master. That is, a person was regarded as other person's property. Karst system was created as a result of the erroneous belief of Hinduism. In the reincarnation ideas of Hinduism, ‘Shudra’ is born as a The lowest layer who has had many Sin and karma in the past. So they pay for the sins of the past in this life. In other words, They must atone for past wrongs in this world. Finally, there is a status system. A status system is an idea duly accepted in a traditional society. The closest, we think the Joseon dynasty period. During the Joseon Dynasty, it is divided into three categories : yangban, commoner, and the lowest class of people. Each depends on their roles and circumstances that given according to their respective positions. A status system is determined from tier of their parents when one is not wanted. No matter how hard people tried, it was almost impossible to rise to another level. I introduced to the past stratification. Stratification of the past was greatly influenced by religion. In Hinduism, through the wrong religious doctrines, they Justify the stratification. In many other religion, they (high class people) doing this and justify other(lower people) goup. As the ages change and the 20th century, 20, slavery, Karst and identification system has disappeared because of the problem of human rights. But stratification still exists(Invisible to the eye.). Inequality exists in any society, and will not go away. However, unlike past that efforts never change life (almost), it is now possible to change one`s life by making efforts to change their lives. For example, a businessman who became a millionaire but in the past he was poor .

There are several theories on how to view this stratification. Among them, I would like to introduce 2 theories.

First, Functionalism theory.

The social stratification of functionalism is caused by the difference in role’s importance and role’s ability. That is, they believe that the judge should be rewarded for their efforts, as compared to street cleaners. A discriminatory distribution system is an incentive for a person to strive for greater reward. In other words, in a discriminatory distribution society people ability and society are improve and enhanced.
Second, conflict theory.

In terms of conflict, society is a field where struggle is waged to achieve scarce resources. Under these circumstances, vested interests are constantly trying to protect their property and honor. Thus, I think the social hierarchy is a phenomenon in which a vested interest exploiting and ruling other social hierarchy class people.

In other words, social stratification is a means of justifying the dominance that the vested interests used to defending the their property and wealth.

 

2) My question in this link.

I think stratification is in everywhere. But we cannot erase all of stratification. In people group like society, there must be stratification. So I think not people try to erase them, but people should try to shrink them. What do you think??

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POSTING by Dong Min CHOI

#Summary

Stratification is social ranked order through inequality of scarce resource, religion,.. and so on.
Max weber who one of the intersted in these inequalities defines stratification to three sections.
They are class, status, party.
Stratification is occured by use of socioeconomic status like wealth, occupational prestige reflecting power and so on.
In horticultural/pastoralist societies, humans settled down in one place and groups grew to be large. And distribution of labor made add of productions. Also, private property flourish in the late 15c in Europe and spreading out, three ideas be equality in 17c~18c by Hobbes and Locke.

In inequality, two approaches are consist. They are Structural-Functionalism, Conflict Theory.
According to first theory, strtification and inequalities are inevitable and beneficial to society. However, the other theory suggest that stratification is dysfunctional in society.

#Mention
It is very interesting to me that stratification change through period. Also, it is interesting too that in inequality, two classic approaches are consist.It is amazing in the way that people consider two theory are contrary.

#Question
I guess that inequality in everyday iife our korean university student.

W9 posted by Ji nu Nam (남진우)

Summary

Stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of people in a society. And it classifying people by three factors power, property, prestige.

Power is ability to make others to do his will.

Poverty is the sum of total of one’s asset, simply regular income, debts.

Prestige is the someone’s reputation or esteem related to his social society.

Inequality means the unequal chances to access to social resource. And it happens in every place of world. Inequality comes from hunter/gatherer society to modern age. In that time personal property show up and people starts to accumulate wealth. In horticultural/pastoralist societies people stars to trade each other more actively and this brought the inequality to our society.

Mention

I studied this before and i was always curious about inequality. as you see inequality is spread in our sociaty. for example same goal but different ways to achive that goal. someone goes easy way beacause of his wealth or power, but someone goes hard way beacause of he is poor and weak.

so after this lecture i could think more about inequality.

Question 

I wonder why we can't minimize the inequality and eliminate the roof of stratification. i know we can't eliminate them perfectly but at least we should  try. so what should we do?     

9W posting by Han seung gu

1.Summary

Stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of people in a society.
Sociology has a long history. It's relatede with teaching about various kinds of inequality, including economic inequality, racial/ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and other types of inequality.
Inequality is the scarce and valued resources in society. the sort of resources:economic or political, such as health care, education, jobs, property and land ownership, housing, and ability to influence government policy.
Max Weber defines stratification in terms of socioeconomic status. And he saw Three dimention of
stratification(class,status,party). There are a variety of ways to measure status, including educational attainment, income, wealth, and occupational prestige. These measures reflect three characteristics of individuals: power, property, and prestige.
Power: refers to someone’s ability to get others to do his/her will. There are legitimate and illegitimate.
Property:refers to the sum total of one’s possessions as well as their regular income.
Prestige:refers to the reputation or esteem associated with one’s position in society.
The origins of inequality can be found in the transition from hunter/gatherer societies to horticultural/pastoralist societies. It's seems almost all society.
In hunter/gather societies,People grew and collected their food for all of their needs.
There was very little trading between the groups. But There were not many inequalities between groups.
In horticultural/pastoralist societies. groups grew to be very large and humans settled down in one place. So there were inequality some ability.
Industrialization began. In the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.There was collectivity in the space and land in Europe.They have a private property. it result in a big inequality.
Since then inequality has gone increasingly larger.
Many of sociologists mentioned about inequality.
Social reproduction theory by Joel Charon focuses on the roles of institutions and cultures in the perpetuation of inequality and the process by which the social class structure is maintained. and
Karl Marx argued that the rich and powerful have control over the means of production, which is economic power, and they also have great influence on government power.
And there are Two classical approches about stratification: Structural-Functionalism ,Conflict Theorists
Structural-Functionalism asks the same question that it does of the other components of society
For example:"What function or purpose does it serve?"
Conflict theorists argue that stratification is dysfunctional and harmful in society.
Stratification benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor.

2.Opinion

Although i am a vicitim in stratification, I don't know well about social stratification.

So I can learn many things this document.

And I've very surprised that There are some inequality in hunter/gather societies.

That The society of stratification effects on economy is also surprised thing.

I feel the inequality will be never disappeared.

3.Question

In the context, there are a variety of ways to measure status,and its reflect 3 characteristics of individuals: power,property,and prestige.

Why just 3 characteristics? Other reflecting about measuring social status are not reflected? 

kimhyemin W9

In this weekend, I read an article about stratification.

In fact..Compared until now, this subject feels difficult for me..

But I'll do my best to this posting..!

 

Stratification stand for the hierarchical arrangement in a society.

Especially, focus on economic stratification.

 

Socioeconomic Status

This part introduce a three main dimensions of stratification of Max weber idea.

It is those three..Power, Property and Prestige.

These three dimensions indicate people social class and socioeconomic status.

 

I interest that someone class and status can be layered into three.

These three dimensions is persuasive, and clear.

 

Social Class in America

This part introduce a Social Class in America, especially a theory of Sociologists Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl.

America's working class and working poor are hotel housekeepers, waitresses, house maids.. and so on.

 

I was verrrrrry surprised by the fact ( the richest one percent of Americans earn a quarter of the country's income and control 40 percent of its wealth. )

And I learned the cause. because the Great Recession from 2007-2009

 

 

And this part explain.. other Origins of Inequality and Private Property, The Persistence of Inequality, Eliminating Inequality

 

Dominant Perspectives

In this part introduce a Two classic approaches to stratification.

This approaches divided into structural-functionalism and conflict theories.

1)Structural-Functionalism on Stratification

It is logical that society must offer greater rewards to motivate the most qualified people to fill the most important positions.

2)Conflict Theorists on Stratification

Conflict theorists believe that this competitive system, together with the way the game is ‘fixed’, ends up creating and perpetuating stratification systems.

 

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1. summary

 

The topic of the discussion is about stratification.

Stratification refers to the hierarchical alignment of people in society.

Inequality means the unequal access of people in society for limited resources and valuable resources.

The resources for these inequalities can affect individuals ’ economic or political situations, such as healthcare, education, jobs, and wealth.

 

 

 

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The inequality is happening everywhere in the world.

Max Weber saw that individuals ' three characteristics _ power, property, and prestige _ were important elements of individuals representing hierarchy.

These three characteristics can represent a social class or social status of a person.

First, power is the ability to give others what they want, regardless of what others want.

Second, property refers to property owned by individuals and their general income.

The last is prestige.

Prestige means being socially acquired.

In other words, the individual represents respect for his position in society.

Such prestige is commonly associated with individual jobs.

 

 

The origins of inequality in society can be found in the transition from hunter/gatherer societies to horticultural/pastoralist societies.

In hunter/gather societies, (around 50,000 B.C.), most people worked together and jointly shared common ownership.

These societies did not inequality because individuals did not own private property.

In horticultural/pastoralist societies (around 12,000 B.C.), society grew and human settled in one place.

People have formed a wealth of people who accumulate wealth in addition to the time they spend other jobs besides food production.

Thus, there was a disparity between the haves and the have-nots.

 

 

The classic approach to these phenomenon, structural-functionalism and conflict theories.

From a point of structural-functionalism, stratification and inequality are helpful in society. 

The functional importance of a job means whether or not someone else can perform the same functions.

Thus, social inequality is necessary to maintain society.

Conflict theory argue that stratification is harmful in society.

Conflict theorist argue that social inequality supports wealthy people.

In contrast, the weak and poor people that they are socially exploited.

As a result of structural inequalities in society that sees solidify.

 

2.  my opinion 

 

I learned a lot about social stratification.

I have never thought deeply about social stratification but it has become a great opportunity.

I stand on the position of structural-functionalism of social stratification.

I think that there is more time and money in the training process for socially competent work.

Therefore, I think it is natural for such a person to receive compensation.

That means that people who do important work should support compensation.

I also believe that these distributions will contribute to the development of individuals ’ abilities.

Individuals are motivated by a graded distribution.

Therefore, I think it will contribute to the development of personal abilities and the development of social development.

 

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