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Stratification and Changes DONE
Stratification and Changes DONE
Stratification and Changes DONE
1. Conflict Theory
2. Functionalist Theory
1. Conflict Theory
Two major social groups
a. Ruling Class – power
owning and controlling
b. Subject Class – conflict of
interest between the two
classes arises.
1. Conflict Theory
Four main epochs.
a. Primitive Communism –
classless society
b. Ancient Society – master
and slaves
1. Conflict Theory
Four main epochs.
c. Feudal Society – lords and
serfs
d. Capitalist Society – capitalist
an wage laborers
According to Karl Marx in all
stratified societies.
e.g. Sanskrit
4. Class System – is a social
rank based on economic
position whose achieved
characteristics can influence
social mobility.
Social Mobility
1. Vertical Mobility – is a
movement up or down the
social strata.
2. Horizontal Mobility – is a
change of status without a
corresponding shift within the
social hierarchy.
3. Inter- Generational Social
Mobility – is the change in the
status of family members
from one generation to the
next.
4. Intra- Generational Social
Mobility – is the advancement
in one’s social level during the
course of one’s lifetime.
5. Structural Mobility – is a
kind of vertical mobility.
Social, Cultural and Political
Changes
Changes
- Is an essential aspect of
culture hence dynamic and
never static.
Social Changes
- Modification or
discontinuance of existing
“tried” and “tested”
procedures transmitted to us
from the past culture.
Cultural Changes
- Modification or
establishment of a new
leadership or policies brought
about by any significant
disruption in a government.
Factors or sources
3. Acculturation – society or
group deemed to be
powerful. “others” or
“outsiders”
Factors or sources
4. Assimilation – process of
accepting of minority groups
by the mainstream culture.
Three Models of Ethnic
Integration
1. Assimilation
2. Melting pot
3. Pluralism