Propaedia Outline of Knowledge

Part Five V › Division II II › Section 523 523

Social Status

Subject Outline

ASocial differentiation and stratification
- 1The concepts of differentiation and stratification: distinctions and interrelationships
- 2Factors producing social, economic, and cultural differences: sex differentiation, age differentiation, racial differentiation, intellectual differentiation, social and cultural factors [see 521.D.]
- 3The process of stratification: its relationship to differentiation
  - aEconomic differentiation: the basis of stratification
  - bClass, status, and power as forms of stratification
  - cThe relation of the individual to society: the effects of differentiation and stratification
BVarieties of social stratification and social mobility
- 1The relation of social class to caste, status, elites, and other concepts
- 2Theories of social class: divergent conceptions of the importance of classes in social structures and of the nature of class relationships
- 3Types and characteristics of and comparisons among modern social classes: upper class, working class, and middle class; the special case of the peasant class
- 4Social mobility
- 5The idea of a classless society: approximations to an equality of conditions

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