1) There are
differences between slavery, caste, estate, and class systems. Slavery is where
a person is owned by someone else. This can either be voluntary or involuntary.
There are many reasons why someone may be in slavery. Also, the conditions of
their contract may differ as well. In caste a status is giving to a person at
birth. Caste is an involuntary thing because one can’t change its status after
it is given. Caste is widely practice in South Africa and India. On the other
hand, during the medieval times in Europe there were different classes of
wealth. This is exactly like what we know in American. What we know as the
lower class is commoners, middle class clergy, and upper class nobility. In
American we can be related to the class systems because we have classes based
on wealth. All over the world there are social stratification.
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3) There are many ways
elites try and maintain stratification. They can control in two ways. The ways
of controlling can either be soft control or by force. Soft control rulers didn’t
have to use a lot of force in order to be followed. An example would be Charles
Mason. His followers simply liked his ideas. His followers would even kill for
him. An example of force control is Hitler. He wanted to protect his power by
killing off the none blonde hair blue eye people. Both of these guys wanted to
protect their power. They would withhold information from their followers. They
also didn’t like to have their power challenged. The more their followers were educated
the more they would criticize their leaders’ actions. When one person rebels
from the leader more people will tend to follow. This could be very damaging to
the elites in power. They want to maintain their power. Sometimes they will
even watch their followers without them even knowing it. The rise of technology
makes this very easy. The elite groups can tap into video camera systems to
trace their followers everywhere they go. Anyone in power likes to stay in
power.
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