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The document summarizes four main systems of social stratification: 1) Slavery, where enslaved individuals are owned and have no freedom. Examples include slavery in ancient Greece/Rome and the southern US. 2) The estate system (feudalism), which emerged in medieval times and required peasants to work nobles' land in exchange for protection. Status was inherited. 3) The caste system, a hereditary religious hierarchy with fixed social ranks like India's Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras. 4) The class system, where social rank is based on economic position and characteristics. Classes are relatively open and allow

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System of Stratification

The document summarizes four main systems of social stratification: 1) Slavery, where enslaved individuals are owned and have no freedom. Examples include slavery in ancient Greece/Rome and the southern US. 2) The estate system (feudalism), which emerged in medieval times and required peasants to work nobles' land in exchange for protection. Status was inherited. 3) The caste system, a hereditary religious hierarchy with fixed social ranks like India's Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras. 4) The class system, where social rank is based on economic position and characteristics. Classes are relatively open and allow

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System of Stratification

presented by Klarence Labrague

There are four system of stratification


Slavery
Estate System
Caste System
Class System
Slavery
Slavery is the most life-
threatening form of legalized
social inequality

Ensalved individuals are owned or regarded


as property by other people. A slave man
does not have a freedom and can be sold
depending on the desires of his lord or
master.
Slavery varies in different societies at
different times.
Two major examples of Slavery

Greek and Roman Southern states of USA in the 18th and 19th
centuries
Estate system or Feudalism emerged during Middle Age

It requires peasants to work on the land (fief)


leased to them by the nobles in exchange for
military protection against the other lords.
Inheritance define one’s ownership of
the land. The nobles inherited their titles and
property while the peasants were born to a
docile position in an agrarian society.
Caste System

According to Schaefer (2008), Caste system is a hereditary


system or rank, usually religiously dictated, that tends to be
fixed and immobile.
The word caste implies race or kind.
-The Sanskrit word for caste is varna which means color
Caste is often associated with India. Historically, the caste system in
India consisted of four well known categories (Varnas): Brahmins (priests),
Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaishyas (commerce), Shudras (workmen). Some
people left out of these four caste classifications were called “outcasts”
or “untouchables” and were shunned and ostracized. Ancient Indian
legal texts, such as Manusmṛti (ca. 200 BCE-200 CE), suggest that caste
systems have been part of Indian society for millennia.
Class System

Class System is a social rank based on economic


position whose achieved characteristics can influence
social mobility. It is far different from other system since
one can move stratum or rank to another. Social class
are de facto groups (not legally or religiously defined
and sanctioned) they are relatively open not closed.
Social Class is identified with industrial
societies that have emerged since the 17th
century.
 People are usually born into their class, though
social mobility allows for some individuals to attain
a higher-level class or fall to a lower-level one.

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