Class

Class

              

·        Social stratification of people into hierarchical groups

·        Social-economic class = same social, economic and educational level

·        Previously based on hereditary distinctions

·        ‘Upper class’ – ‘middle class’ – ‘working class’ (Lower-mid/upper wc? Fuzzy)

·        Aristocracy - Meritocracy

·        Poverty - Affluence

·        Mobility between classes

·        Classless society

·        Communism – which countries are still Communist?

·        Class in the UAE     

                                                 

Research

 

Describe India’s caste system as an example of social stratification

 

(What are the classes and castes? What does each one mean? Can you move class? What are the restrictions? Has it changed at all over the years?)