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?
Um... I think that we undergo in minimizing the inequality bacause usually the powerful uses big money to save their power and pressure on lower-class people for saving their power. It is snowball effect. For exmaple, lower-class people can't hire prime and outstanding attorney who want big money in trial.But the powerful can.
ReplyDeleteThe reason we can not remove the stratification is that it is the human instinct that constantly compete and to try to stand on precedence in any group.
ReplyDeleteSuch instincts divides the position of the winners and losers in employment or college admission process.
Thus stratification is inevitable presence.
But in order to minimize stratification, we must help the weak who can be culled from the competition.