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Social Stratification (Features of stratified society (The rankings apply…
Social Stratification
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Systems of Stratification
- Can exist along one another
Slavery
- Slavery is an extreme form of inequality, in which certain people are owned as property by others
- Slave systems are unstable because:
a) Slaves have always rebelled against their abject conditions, leading to breakdown.
b) There are more economically efficient ways of getting labour than direct compulsion.
Slavery has increasingly been seen as morally wrong. It has become illegal in many places. However, it has been increasing rather than diminishing.
Caste
Indian Caste System
- More than 2000 years old and based on Hindu beliefs
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- A caste system is a social system in which one's social position is given for a lifetime.
- In caste societies, all individuals must remain at the social level of their birth throughout life.
- Everyone's social status is based on personal characteristics that are accidents of birth and are therefore believed to be unchangeable.
- Considered a special type of class society where one's position is ascribed at birth
- Usually seen in pre-industrial countries with agrarian economies
- In caste systems, intimate contact with members of other castes is strongly discouraged. Such 'purity' of a caste is often maintained by rules_ of endogamy, marriage within one's social group as required by custom or law.
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