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# Sociology Daily Answer Writing (19-12-2022)
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- Published: 2022-12-19T02:07:10.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-19T02:07:10.000Z
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- Tags: Socio Daily Writing

### Questions

1. Compare and contrast on the ideas of Class Stratification as described by Weber and Marx. 20
2. ‘As injustice and violence are endemic in a coloured person’s life, contestation and confrontation are synchronous in their response to the same.’ Comment in context of “Black Lives matter” and race as a dimension of Social Stratification. 20

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### Model Solutions

**Q1\. Compare and contrast on the ideas of Class Stratification as described by Weber and Marx. 20**  
**Model Framework**

**Introduction:**

- Definition of Class

**Main Body:**

- **Differences:**

| **Marx ( Conflictist )**                                                                                                                 | **Weber ( Interpretivist )**                                                                                                       |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Definition of Class Class as purely based on unequal ownership of forces of production                                                   | Definition of ClassClass as based on unequal ownership of Economic, political and social status                                    |
| Number of classes - Two; Haves and Have nots                                                                                             | Number of classes - 4 types                                                                                                        |
| Class homogenisation will take place                                                                                                     | Class homogenisation not possible,Instead decomposition will take place                                                            |
| Class Polarisation                                                                                                                       | Middle class will swell due to skills and mobility                                                                                 |
| Class struggle will take place and the solution lies in Revolution thereby leading to Communism - Egalitarian structure - Death of class | Class inequality will prevail.Instead of revolution, structural differences can cause the peaceful coexistence in class structure. |

  
**Similarities (ALONG WITH EXAMPLES ):**

- Inevitable class structure in the society will be present.
- Structural inequality will be present between the classes.

**Conclusion:**

- Despite such Differences, both the revolutionary thinkers brought to the front unequal class structure and propounded respective solutions for it based on their respective approaches.

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**Q2\. ‘As injustice and violence are endemic in a coloured person’s life, contestation and confrontation are synchronous in their response to the same.’ Comment in context of “Black Lives matter” and race as a dimension of Social Stratification. 20**

**Model Structure** 
**Introduction:**

- Define race as a dimension of stratification

**Main Body:**

- Race - one of the major social stratification systems in world  
  - Race & stereotypes
  - Racial profiling -
  - Racial discrimination & violence  
    - Eg. Ku Klux clan groups in USA
  - All these led to persistent injustice for colored, migrants etc.
- Response via Merton typology - passive resistance to militant retaliation.  
  - Innovator - Ideological contestation via Films, articles; Cricketers wearing black-flags supporting the Black lives matter.
  - Ritualist - Accepting the inequality and perpetuate it inadvertently
  - Retreatism - Taking to drugs, fatalistic
  - Rebellion -Official confrontation. Protests. May led to violence.  
  Black lives matter movement
- Elaborate black lives matter movement
- Race as a dimension of Social Stratification  
  - Race is a group of people, who are perceived by a given society as biologically or culturally different from the others
  - Sociologists view race as merely an ideological construct based on physical differences
  - It was also used as a tool of domination, discrimination and spreading inequality in the form of racial stratification.
  - Joseph Arthur de Gobineu classified three distinct racial groups: White (Caucasian), Black (Negroid), and Yellow (Mongolian). He also attached the notion of superiority and inferiority with these races.
  - Rudyard Kipling: White man’s burden theory
  - Adolf Hitler- supremacy of Aryans
  - Ethnocentrism: tendency to evaluate others' culture in terms of their own culture. It creates notions of in-groups and out-groups. Eg. Ghettos
  - Conflict perspective: O C Cox - racial stratification is a product of the capitalist system in which ruling class used slavery, colonisation and racism as tools for exploiting labour
  - New racism

**Conclusion:**

- George Floyd incidence as a current example

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