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Game of Thrones: Gender, Sexuality, Class, and Social Stratification It is very common for several TV shows or movies to reflect real life society, depending on what genre. Game of Thrones, a TV adaptation of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series…
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A definition of meritocracy offered by Levinson, Cookson and Sadovik is that “meritocracy conceptualizes merit in terms of tested competency and ability, and most likely, as measured by IQ or standardized achievement tests” (Levinson, Cookson and Sadovnik, 2014). The idea of a meritocratic education system…
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Meritocracy describes a system in which the people that are successful and get ahead, do so on their own merit and accomplishments. The concept of meritocracy grants all individuals a fair chance of success. In reality, the myth of meritocracy justifies the gaping inequalities in…
Saw that variations in access to the means that of production created social, economic and political difference in addition as 2 distinct classes-owners and laborers. Karl Marx believed that free enterprise through industry had inflated the productive capability of the world’s economy way on the…
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The Great Gatsby is a true classic written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in the year 1925. It serves as a piece of history for American fiction, this novel is filled with triumph and tragedy, noted for the extraordinary way its author captures a…
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‘Social stratification’ is the term used to describe systematic structures of inequality. In pre-industrial or traditional societies, inequalities and thus social stratification were widely held to be natural. Aristotle stated that ‘by nature’ there were free men and slaves, yet if inequalities are natural, Crompton…
What is social stratification? What is meant by a caste system vs. a class system, and what are some examples mentioned in the lecture? Describe the American class system and outline the characteristics of the different classes. Finally, discuss the purpose of social stratification –…
Since the dawn of humankind, human systems and natural systems have overlapped and interacted. Humans are integrated in nature simply because they are living beings on the planet Earth, and “the delineation between social systems and ecological systems is artificial and arbitrary (“Socio-ecological system”).” The…
All societies arrange their members in terms of superiority, inferiority and equality. The vertical scale of evaluation, this positioning of people in strata, or layers is called stratification. Social stratification is a natural and voluntary separation according to race, religion, social and economic condition. Social…
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Social stratification ranks of society are as follows: lower class, working class, middle class and upper class and these tiers are based on factors like wealth, income, race, education and power. The same resources, schools, best neighborhoods and life chances that are available to the…
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