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Social Structures and Stratification

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Social Stratification, according to Haralambos (2008), social stratification is a form of social inequality and its relevant to the individual social groups that are rated against each other, depending on factors such as their power or wealth etc. In addition, Browne (2011) says that social stratification is the separation of society into a ranking of differing groups.
Social Class: This is when the Registrar-General Classification establishes people in relation to their employment. It is based on the idea that the more important and high your career is, the more important and high you are based on that career: Goldthorpe (1980) According to Haralambos (2013), this estimated social stratification by how knowledgeable you are when it comes to skills and also how important the skills you possess are; this is called ‘market situation’.
Savage et al (2013), this measured how associated you are within a society, how you are connected within culture and also how financially wealthy you are.

Social Mobility
According to Browne (2011), this is the development of certain individuals between classes in a society. If this is included in a particular society then that society is seen as an ‘open system’.

Social Closure
This is the adverse of ‘Social Mobility’, it is the constraint of development between the different social classes and it averts anyone that is not from that particular social class from getting in.

Changes in Class Structures
The upper class has been more and more arranged by ‘managerial revolution’ etc. These factors in some cases may force the upper class higher into the elite region, yet it can force them down, still prevailing as the upper class. In the middle class, the rising of the ‘service’ class is still continuing. According to Lawson (2005), the growing of the new working class makes some individuals in the working class more relevant than others.

Embourgeoisement
According to Haralambos (2013),...

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