Social stratification and a stratified world?

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

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Marx - Conflict of interests in a two class
society


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Webers Social Stratification

• A four-class hierarchy based on economics, power
  and status

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The Upper class - wealthy and powerful
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The Middle class Non-manual workers
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The Working class mainly manual workers
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The Underclass - very poor, e.g. the
unemployed and homeless
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A stratified World?
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The world stratified into two layers?
Rich World
Poor World
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The world stratified into four layers?
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Put simply - countries roughly break along a
class hierarchy e.g.
Upper Class Countries USA, Japan, Singapore, European Union, Australia, New Zealand
Middle Class Countries Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey
Working Class Countries (developing) China, India, Africa, Ghana, Nigeria Pakistan, Indonesia
Underclass Countries States such as , Albania, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh
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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.