Social stratification (8th grade)

Objectives:

1. Explain to students the essence of the modern understanding of social stratification, show its impact on the behavior, lifestyle, income, etc. of people.
2. develop the ability to analyze representatives of different classes, making their social portrait.
3. Continue learning to work with documents.
4. work with concepts: stratum, income, power, prestige, class, lifestyle.

Lesson structure:

1. Repetition of the studied material.
2. Social stratification and its components.
3. What are classes?
4. It affects people's lifestyles.
5. Lesson result. Grades.
6. Homework.

Class progress:

1. Repetition of the studied material

The topic of today’s lesson is “Social Stratification”.
Studying this topic will help us to better navigate in modern society, to understand what affects the behavior of people. We will discuss two points of our plan in the lesson, and the last item will be left to you at home for independent study on the textbook. Before we get into the new material, let’s remember:

• What areas does society divide into?
• What about the social sphere of society?
• What is a stratum? (after the children's answer, the definition "Strate is a social layer of people who have similar characteristics in terms of income, power, education, prestige) is posted or projected through the screen.
• Let's remember what is social status? What statuses can you find in yourself?
• What is the role of status symbols? Like what?

2. Social stratification and its components

Now let's sum up what we said.
Everyone occupies a certain place in society. The question arises: “Can there be a society of absolutely equal people?”
By what criteria can we divide people in a complex society? Income, power, education. (The board is displayed or projected through the definition screen.)

• Income is the amount of money received by an individual or family over a period of time.
• Education is measured by the number of years of study in a public or private school or university.
• Power is the ability to impose will or decision on others regardless of their will.
• Prestige is respect for a person’s social position, which has developed in public opinion.

For example, let’s characterize these signs: banker, mechanic, doctor. People with similar social characteristics are united in social communities. (The board is displayed or projected through the screen diagram.)
Social communities:

Estate is a social group that has established custom or legal law and inherited rights and obligations.
Classes are any social stratum in modern society, which is distinguished by income, education, power, prestige.
The division of the whole society into strata, groups, strata, classes is called social stratification.
Social stratification is the same as social stratification. Only the term stratification is used in science, and in stratification is used in everyday speech and only sometimes in science. Historical types of stratification are: slavery, castes, estates and classes. Pay attention to the drawing in our textbook, which clearly shows us the historical types of stratification.
To better understand them, we will work with documents. We need to split into three groups. Each group receives a document, you work with it and answer the proposed questions, make brief notes in notebooks.
Next comes the work in groups. Children from different groups alternately make a brief review of documents, entries in notebooks for all students (for example, children from different groups).see annex:

• Slavery is an economic, social and legal form of enslavement of people, bordering on complete disenfranchisement and extreme inequality.
• Caste is a social group (strata), membership in which a person owes only his birth.
• Estate is a social group with established custom or legal law and inherited rights and obligations.
• Title is a statutory verbal designation of the official and estate status of its holders, which briefly determined the legal status.
• The uniform was the official uniform that corresponded to the titles and visually expressed them.

3. What are classes?

The basis of modern stratification are classes. For the first time this concept appeared in the 18th century, it replaced the feudal-estate society.

In the historical sense, classes are large social groups of people who have or do not have the means of production. They occupy a certain place in the system of social division of labor, are characterized by a specific way of generating income.

In the modern sense, classes are any social stratum that is distinguished by income, education, power, prestige. Let's look at the board again, the definitions. (Schema is displayed or projected on the board.)

Classes:

Scientists do not agree on how many classes there are in modern society. More precisely, they know the number of the main classes, there are only three: the rich, the wealthy and the poor. It is unclear how many layers there are in each class. We will talk more about the class of the rich and the class of the poor in the following lessons.
Now let's summarize the lesson.
At a certain stage of historical development, social stratification occurs in society. Or what we scientifically call social stratification. Each stratum includes people with the same income, power, education, prestige.
Let's remember again: what is a strata? Income? Power? Prestige?

4. What affects people's lifestyles

Question: “What affects the lifestyle of people” you will study by reading the additional text “Half an hour before work”?

5. Lesson result. Assessments

6. Homework.

Literature:

1. A.I. Kravchenko textbook "Social Science. 8-9 classes" M, "Russian word", 2010.
2. E.A. Pevtsova “A book for a teacher”. Social studies M, "The Russian Word", 2000
3. N.R. Guseva “Many Faced India”, M, 1980
4. L.E. Shepelev "Titles, uniforms, orders" 1981.

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Summary and assignments for students to the lesson (.doc), the volume of 43 Kb