Sociology ch9

Occurs when people are ranked in a hierarchy that differentiates them as superior or inferior.

A number of people who occupy the same relative economic rank in the stratification system.

The process of categorizing peoople by some personal attribute.

• Primitive Communal
• Slave Based
• Caste System
• Feudalism
• Class Based System

• Largely hunting and gathering
• ofter nomadic
• little surplus wealth

Economic ownership of humans

Place in the stratification structure is based on prestige of segment of society into which one is born (ascribed status)

• placement in which stratification structure is based on land ownership extesice ascription very low rates of mobility
• 1. aristocracy
• 2. religous leaders
• 3. commoners/pearnats

• private ownership of productive property
• placement in the stratification structure is based on individual effort
• free markets

Refers to the dominant values and ideologies that justifies stratification. (ex. Inequality)