1. Social Stratification (II) 24.2.2017 10.30 am to 12.30 pm Chai
MDJ 1042 Social Science
Social Stratification (II)
10.30 am to pm
Chai

2. By the end of this learning unit, you should be able to:
A. Identify social class in Malaysia B. Describe stratification in the world system. C. Define social mobility. D. Identify types of social mobility. E. Explain social mobility in Malaysia.

7. Social class in Malaysia

8. Class position in Malaysia depends on a combination of political connections and family money.

9. influence the class position
Other factors that
influence the class position
in Malaysia

10. Who has the higher social class?B

11. Who has the higher social class?B

12. Who has the higher social class?B

13. Who has the higher social class?B

14. Who has the higher social class?B

15. Who has the higher social class?B

16. Who has the higher social class?B

17. Who has the higher social class?B

18. Is a surgeon more important to society than a garbage collector?

19. Find out in at which class you are:

20. Upper/ Capitalist Class
Monthly income exceeds RM

21. Upper Middle Class
Monthly income:
RM to RM

22. Middle Class
Monthly income:
RM 4200 to RM 10000

23. Lower Middle Class
Monthly income:
RM 3000 to RM RM 6250

24. Working Class
Monthly income:
RM 2000 to RM 4000.

25. Under Class
Monthly income:
less than RM 1200

36. High income countries Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Brunei China
Upper Middle income countries
Australia
Belgium
Brunei
Hong Kong
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Canada UK
Argentina
Brazil
China
Iran
Iraq
Mexico
Thailand
Low income countries
Lower Middle income countries
Nepal
Malawi
Afghanistan
Haiti
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Madagascar
Somalia
Uganda
Bangladesh
Cambodia
India
Myanmar
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Vietnam

38. Developed by
Immanuel Wallerstein

40. Malaysia is rich of natural resources such as petroleum, timber, and gold.
In addition, Malaysia is an industrialized country and high education level.
So, Malaysia should be classified as core, semi-periphery or periphery country?

46. Social
Mobility

51. Horizontal Social Mobility

52. Horizontal Social Mobility
A change in position at the same social level
Place is changed, but the social position remains on the same level.

53. Vertical Social Mobility

54. Vertical Social Mobility
A change in position between social levels
⁻ Change in status of an individual.

55. Intergenerational Social Mobility
A change in social position that occurs over multiple generations.

56. Intrageneration Social Mobility
Change in the social status within the same generation.

57. Territorial Social Mobility
Change in locality or territory, when an individual move from one place to another place.

58. Which social mobility?
The son of a farmer earns a university education and become a successful lawyer.
Upward
Intergenerational Mobility

59. Which social mobility?
Bernie Madoff fall from being a rich and powerful Wall Street executive to a prison inmate.
Downward Vertical Mobility

60. Which social mobility?
A teacher who leaves one school to take a position as a teacher at another school
Horizontal Mobility

61. Which social mobility?
Samuel move to a new house in Kuching and get his house at UK on rent.
Territorial Mobility

62. Uzma, a nurse married to a Datuk and becomes a Datin
Which social mobility?
Uzma, a nurse married to a Datuk and becomes a Datin
Upward Vertical Mobility

63. Which social mobility? Downward Intrageneration Mobility
Three children are born into one upper class family. After school, two of the children enter the job market with high income and have remained at the same social class. The third child works as a teacher and is now in middle class.
Downward Intrageneration Mobility
The third child has attained which mobility?
Downward Vertical Mobility

64. Which social mobility?
A clerk who accepts the same position at another company
Horizontal Mobility

65. Which social mobility?
The son of Dato' Sri Najib becomes a Uber driver
(*rekaan semata-mata untuk tujuan pengajaran)
Downward Intergenerational Mobility

66. Open system
Social mobility
Closed system

67. Open system

68. Closed system

70. Social Mobility in Malaysia

71. Upward Mobility hard work is the key to upward mobility.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

72. 74% of children raised by parents in the lowest social class (the poorest) have risen at least one social class higher than their parents
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

73. 63% of Malaysians adults are better educated than their parents
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

74. 76% of children with low-skilled parents are better skilled.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

75. 50% of the children earn a higher income than their parents.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

76. Less than 19% of an individual’s income is influenced by their parents.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

77. Upward mobility happens the fastest among the ethnic Chinese, followed by Bumiputeras, and Indians.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

78. Factors contribute to upward social mobility
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

79. Factors contribute to upward social mobility
Children brought up in the city are 1.5 times more likely to earn more.
Children of parents with savings are 1.7 times more likely to climb up the social mobility ladder than those who don't
Boys were found to be 3.6 times more likely to earn more than girls.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

81. Downward
Mobility
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

82. Children raised by a single parent are 2
Children raised by a single parent are 2.5 times more likely to earn less than their parents.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)

83. Kids from middle-income and high-income families are more likely to move down or earn less than their parents.
Khazanah Research Institute (2016)