1. Do Now “We separate ourselves from those who do not reflect us.”
React to this statement

2. Social Class Analysis Number you paper #1-13
Look at the following pictures. To which social class does the person belong? Provide a reason for each
Upper Class
Middle Class
Working Class
Lower Class

3. #1

4. #2

5. #3

6. #4

7. #5

8. #6

9. #7

10. #8

11. #1 #9

12. #10

13. #11

14. #12

15. #13

16. Social Stratification, Social Class, and Ethnicity

17. Social Stratification
A system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy based on their access to scarce resources.
Looking Up

18. Four Basic Principles of Social Stratification:
It is a characteristic of society, not simply a reflection of individual differences.
It persists over generations.
It is universal but variable.
It involves not just inequality but beliefs.
Constitutional Peasant

19. Cultural beliefs serve to justify social stratification.
That is part of the reason why it persists.

20. Types of Stratification Systems
Caste System- social stratification based on ascribed status.
India and South Africa
Class System- social stratification based on achieved status.

21. Status: Position in society
Ascribed born into or comes without effort e.g., kinship, race, gender
Achieved must work to get

22. People in the US are stratified based on the following:
Income
Prestige
Wealth
Education
Power

23. Income Wages or salaries from work and earnings from investments.
Distribution of Income in the US
Top 5th 47%
Next 5th 24%
Third 5th 16%
Fourth 5th 10%
Bottom 5th 4%

24. Race and Ethnicity
people define a group as a race based in part on physical characteristics, but also on historical, cultural (religious) and economic factors
Often an ideology constructed by the dominant or majority group

25. Social mobility
Intergenerational mobility—change in social position of children relative to their parents
Intragenerational mobility—change in social position of a person within their life

26. Institutional Discrimination
Denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals or groups that result from the normal operations of a society
Bank loan policy that single women (or African Americans) are poor lending risks
Zoning policies that require large lots
Other examples?