Social Class:
A Social Class in Sociology, According to P. Gisbert is a category or a group of persons having a definite status in society that permanently determines their relations with other groups.
Social Class: Nature and Characteristics
- Class: a status group
- Achieved Status and not Ascribed Status
- Universal (Absent only in smallest, simplest, and most primitive societies)
- Modes of Feeling: Three modes- 1. Feeling of Equality 2. Feeling of Superiority 3. Feeling of Inferiority
- Element of Prestige present: Depends on our evaluation
- Element of Stability
- Modes of Living: Different lifestyles for different classes
- An Open Group: Social Mobility is possible
- An Economic Group
- Classification: 3 Classes- Upper, Middle, and Lower
- Class Consciousness: A Sentiment that characterizes the relations of men towards the members of their own class and other classes.
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