Stratification

Abstract

Questions on this topic tend to fall within the following areas:

• 1 Forms of stratification.

• 2 Ways of assessing class membership.

• 3 Changes in the occupational structure.

• 4 Changes in the class structure:

  • (a) The fragmenting class structure.

  • (b) The position of white-collar workers.

  • (c) Changes in the working class.

  • (d) Changes in the middle class.

• 5 Theories of social stratification:

  • (a) Marxist.

  • (b) Weberian.

  • (c) Functionalist.