After reading Chapter Seven, the student should be able to:
- Define social stratification and explain why it is of sociological significance.
- Describe the three major systems of social stratification (slavery, caste, and class) noting their similarities and differences.
- Discuss how slavery developed and how it was similar and different in its ideology and practice in ancient civilizations and the New World.
- Identify the features of caste systems, listing the different castes.
- List the characteristics of a class system and the differing theoretical assumptions on what determines social class.
- Discuss why gender is universally used as a method of social stratification.
- Explain how Weber's and Marx's views regarding social class differed.
- State the basic assumptions of functionalists like Davis and Moore, and present Tumin's criticisms of this viewpoint.
- Discuss Mosca's perspective on the universality of social stratification and explain why he is considered to be a forerunner of the conflict view.
- Compare Marx's early conflict-oriented perspective on social class with that of later conflict theorists.
- Summarize the synthesis of functionalist and conflict views offered by Gerhard Lenski.
- Explain the mechanisms by which the elite maintain stratification.
- Compare and contrast social stratification in Great Britain and the former Soviet Union.
- Compare and contrast the three worlds model of global stratification with Henslin's more neutral typologies.
- Outline the major theories of how the world's nations became stratified.
- Explain how global stratification has been maintained.
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