global stratifaction quizz

compare and contrast slavery, caste, estate, and class systems of social stratification.

-slavery is where someone owns someone else
-in a caste system peoples status is determines by their caste's relation to other caste's
-estate system of feudal Europe consisted of three estates, the nobility, clergy and peasants/
-class system is much more open than the others and is based on money and possesions.

what is social stratification

a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy

Contrast the views of Marx and Weber on what determines social class/

-Marx argued that if you owned the means of production than you were apart of the upper class
-Weber argued that Property, power, and prestige

Contrast the functional and conflict views of why social stratification is universal.

-functionalists argue that to attract the most capable people, society must offer them greater rewards
-conflict theorists argue that stratification is the elite emerging as groups struggle for limited resources.

How do the elite keep themselves in power.

-They adopt and ideology that justifies its current arrangement, it also controls info and uses technology. When all else fails it turns to brute force

Compare the three worlds of global stratification: the most, currently, and least industrialized nations.

-This model is based on relative property, power, and prestige.

Discuss how colonialism and world system theory explain how the worlds nations became stratified.

-colonialism stresses that countries that industrialized first got a jump on the rest of the world.
- industrialization led to four groups of nations: the 1.core nations: rich bois. 2.semiperiphery: gre dependent on trade with core nations 3.periphery: developed even less. 4. external area: these nations were left out all together

explain how neocolonism, multinational corporations, and technology help to mantain global stra

-neocolonism is the ongoing dominance of the least industrialized nations by the most
-the second points to multinational corporations.
-The new technology gives further advantage to the most industrialized nations.

Identify strains in today's system of global stratification.

currently, capitalism is in crisis and we seem to be experiencing a global shift in economic.