Question

Individuals and groups are divided into different strata in society, based on power, wealth, money, gender and age. This is called as Social Stratification of society. Primarily, there are two systems of social stratification: Class and Caste system. If you have to choose to live either in a class system or a caste system, which one would you choose? State reasons for your choice​

Answer 1

Answer:

class system

Explanation:

unlike the caste system,

Social class is based on economic relationship to the market (owner, renter, employee, etc.)

Social class is based on economic relationship to the market (owner, renter, employee, etc.)Status class has to do with non-economic qualities such as education, honour and prestige

Party class refers to factors having to do with affiliations in the political domain

The class system is universal phenomenon denoting a category or group of persons having a definite status in society which permanently determines their relation to other groups. The social classes are de facto groups (not legally or religiously defined and sanctioned) they are relatively open not closed.

Their basis is indisputably economic but they are more than economic groups. They are characteristic groups of the industrial societies which have developed since 17th century.

The relative importance and definition of membership in a particular class differs greatly over time and between societies, particularly in societies that have a legal differentiation of groups of people by birth or occupation.

In the well-known example of socio economic class, many scholars view societies as stratifying into a hierarchical system based on occupation,economic status, wealth, or income.

According to Ogburn and Nimkoff a social class is the aggregate of persons having essentially the same social status in a given society.

Marx defined class in terms of the extent to which an individual or social group has control over the means of production.In Marxist terms a class is a group of people defined by their relationship to the means of production.