Stratification

What are your thoughts and/or questions about the video on wealth?

Chapter 8: Section 1 Pages 242-248.

1. What is the book Sneetches about?

2. Define social stratification.

3. What is a social class?

4. How many social classes are there in a “developed” country? An

“underdeveloped” country?

5. What were Marx and Weber’s contributions?

6. According to Marx, how would the capitalists treat the working class?

7. What is the difference between income and wealth?

8. In 1999, what were the statistics for those in wealth verses those in poverty?

9. How do Marx and Weber disagree on their ideas of power?