1. Stratification

2. Stratification Systems Types Slave: owners/slaves Estate: nobility/church/ commoners Caste: birth & occupation Class: economics/ sociocultural traits Comparative components 1) Relative importance of ascribed v. achieved statuses 2) Degree of mobility or openness

3. What is the Basis of social stratification? Marx Relationship to the means of production “Haves” v. “Have nots” Bourgeoisie/ capitalists v. proletariat /workers

4. What is the Basis of social stratification? Ralf Dahrendorf May 1, 1929 – June 17, 2009) "command class" V. "obey class" those with authority v. those without

5. What is the Basis of social stratification? Weber Life Chances Class, Status, Party Class = market situation Status=social esteem Party=ability to mobilize group for goal

6. A variety of ways to look at class

7. SES = Socioeconomic Status income/education/occupational prestige http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Social%20Class

8. Class interactive http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_01.html http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Social%20Class http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nat ional/20050515_CLASS_GRAPHIC/index_01.ht ml ES

9. Income: Geography of Recession http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWGzQ_FUtQ

10. Gilbert-Kahl Model of the Class Structure http://uncgsoc101.wordpress.com/module-6-social-stratification/

11. Subjective class identification

12. Political Behavior http://www.votecitizens.org/profiles/blogs/middle-classtake-over-the

13. Intersecting spheres http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/class_domination.html

14. Wealth http://uncgsoc101.wordpress.com/module-6-social-stratification/

15. http://motherjones.com/print/99036

16. Occupy Wall Street http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com

17. Occupy Wall Street http://www.jenx67.com/p/pre-occupied-with-wall-street.html

18. That 9% rate, by the way, equates to 14 million Americans—people who want to work but can't find a job. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10That 9% rate, by the way, equates to 14 million Americans—people who want to work but can't find a job. http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011- 10?op=1#ixzz1d3wjWqhUhttp://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011- 10?op=1#ixzz1d3wjWqhU

19. CEO pay is now 350X the average worker's, up from 50X from 1960-1985.

20. Corporate profits just hit another all-time high.

21. The role of education in class

22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XHob_nVbw

23. Savage Inequalities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mdlYaCjf2I&feature=fvw Photos of East St. Louis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2q3vqTiFHg&NR=1 Jonathan Kozol September 5, 1936-