Stratification

• what 3 things can power be perceived as

  Physical, economic, social
• what are the 4 different sections within stratification

  class, age, gender, ethnicity
• who looked at the 3 different types of inequality

  Milanovic
• What are the 3 types of global inequality

  between individuals, between countries, between all citizens of the world
• Who looked at the inequality within society

  Platt
• What inequalities does the lower class struggle with

  inequality of opportunity, outcome, access
• What are the 3 basis of differentiation

  Physical attributes, other attribute's, subjective judgements
• What are examples of physical attributes 


  Sex, gender, age, ethnicity, disability
• What are examples of other attributes 


  Accents, religion, economic, income
• what is another phrase for social inequality

  Economic inequality
• what is the HIGH TO LOW STATUS

  position is determined by your social status
• What are the 4 social classes in the UK

  Upper class, middle class, working class, under class
• What is social class based on?

  Economic factors
• what is the open and closed stratification system

  your either able to move up or stuck in your position
• What is another name for the closed system

  Casten system
• Why can’t you move up the class scale in a closed system.

  You can’t marry someone from a lower social class
• what are the 4 stages of the caste system

  Assigned at birth, remain in status, position ascribed, endogamy
• Where do Marxist believe class conflict lie’s 


  Producing goods and services
• what is the FORCES of production

  The resources needed to produce goods
• Examples of the forces of production

  Capital, land, factories, machinery, materials
• What is the SOCIAL RELATIONS of production.

  Way in which people organise to make things
• Examples of social relations of production

  roles, responsibilities
• What type of structure is the economic base

  infrastructure
• What type of structure is the family

  superstructure
• Example of another superstructure 


  Ideologies
• what was religion to Marx

  the opium of the masses
• what did the ruling class ideology produce

  false consciousness
• What is another Word for profit

  Surplus
• what does wealth lead to 


  greater political influence, power
• what could be caused if the WC sell their labour in order to live

  Alienation
• What is the main issue caused by capitalism

  class polarisation
• What could cause the polarisation of the WC

  Class consciousness
• one evaluation of the Marx perspective

  inequality is not just based on class but also on ethnicity, gender, nationalism
• What is 1 Neo-Marxist

  Marcuse
• what did Marcuse do?

  False needs
• what word means buying the latest consumer goods

  false needs
• A Neo-Marx


  Wright
• What causes distinctions between the classes

  Exploitation
• example of exploitation between classes

  Owner at home but employees work
• Evaluation on Marcuse

  False needs are difficult to separate from true needs