Social stratification and a stratified world Market size

Social stratification and a stratified world? Market size by GDP, 1995 (Size of country indicates GDP) 1

Social Stratification A class hierarchy 2

Marx -Social Stratification – A Two class hierarchy – based on economic ownership • The Bourgeoisie (The owners and controllers of the means of production) • The Proletariat (the non owners or workers) 3

Marx - Conflict of interests in a two class society ££££££££ 4

Weber’s Social Stratification A four-class hierarchy based on economics, power and status 5

The Upper class - wealthy and powerful 6

The Middle class – Non-manual workers 7

The Working class – mainly manual workers 8

The Underclass - very poor, e. g. the unemployed and homeless 9

A stratified World? 10

The world stratified into two layers? Rich World Poor World 11

The world stratified into four layers? 12

Put simply - countries roughly break along a class hierarchy e. g. Upper Class Countries Middle Class Countries Working Class Countries (developing) Underclass Countries USA, Japan, Singapore, European Union, Australia, New Zealand Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey China, India, Africa, Ghana, Nigeria Pakistan, Indonesia States such as , Albania, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh 13

Stratification and social mobility • Just as individuals and classes can be economically and socially mobile, some sociologists say that countries are economically and socially mobile. • NB Besides class inequalities gender, ethnicity, age and locality are also dimensions of inequality both between and within countries. 14