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Social Stratification Chapter 8. Social Stratification  Life chances  Ascribed and achieved characteristics  Status value  Life chances across countries.

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1 Social Stratification Chapter 8

2 Social Stratification  Life chances  Ascribed and achieved characteristics  Status value  Life chances across countries  Life chances within countries

3 Stratification Systems  Caste system  Class system  Social mobility  Vertical mobility  Downward / upward mobility  Intrageneraltional / intergenerational mobility  Mixed stratification systems

4 Theories of Stratification  Functions of poverty (Gans 1972)  A functionalist view of stratification (Kingsley, Moore 1945)  A conflict view of stratification  World system theory  Colonialism

5 Social Class  Karl Marx  Max Weber  Urban underclass  Rural Poor


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