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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