Social stratification (grade 8)

Lesson objectives:

1. explain to students the essence of the modern understanding of social stratification, show its impact on behavior, lifestyle, income, etc. people.
2. to develop the ability to analyze representatives of various classes, drawing up their social portrait.
3. continue training in document management.
4. working with concepts: stratum, income, power, prestige, class, lifestyle.

Lesson structure:

1. Repetition of the material studied.
2. Social stratification and its terms.
3. What are classes.
4. What affects people's lifestyle.
5. Lesson outcome. Estimates.
6. Homework.

Lesson progress:

1, Repetition of the material studied

Today's lesson topic: Social Stratification
Studying this topic will help you and I better navigate modern society, understand what influences people’s behavior. We will analyze two points of our plan in class, and the last point will remain at home for independent study using a textbook. Before we move on to learning new material, let's remember:

• what areas does society divide into?
• what relates to the social sphere of society?
• what is strata? (after the children’s answer, the definition "Strata is the social layer of people who have similar characteristics in terms of income, power, education, prestige" is posted or designed through the screen).
• let's remember what social status is? What statuses can you find in your home?
• what plays the role of status symbols? For example?

2 Social stratification and its terms

Now let's summarize what has been said.
Each person has a specific 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. (Definitions of these concepts are hung or designed through the screen on the board).

• Income - the amount of cash receipts of an individual or family for a certain period of time.
• Education - Measured by the number of years of study in a public or private school or university.
• Power is the ability to impose a will or decision on other people regardless of their desire.
• Prestige is respect for a person's social position, which has developed in public opinion.

For example, let's characterize from these signs: banker, car mechanic, doctor People with similar social characteristics unite into social communities. (A diagram is hung or designed through a screen on the board).
Social communities:

Class - a social group with established custom or legal law and inherited rights and obligations.
Classes are any social stratum in modern society that is distinguished by income, education, power, and prestige.
The division of the entire society into strata, groups, layers, classes is called social stratification.
Social stratification is the same as social stratification Only the term stratification we apply in science, and in "dividing" is used in everyday speech and only sometimes in science Historical types of stratification are: slavery, castes, classes and classes. Notice the drawing in our textbook that clearly shows us the historical types of stratification.
To better understand them, we will work with documents We need to divide into three groups Each group receives a document, you work with it and answer the proposed questions, make brief notes in notebooks.
Next comes group work Children from different groups take turns making a brief overview of documents, notebook entries for all pupils (see appendix):

• Slavery is an economic, social and legal form of enslavement of people, bordering on complete disenfranchisement and extreme inequality.
• Caste is a social group (strate) in which a person owes membership exclusively to his birth.
• Class - a social group with rights and obligations enshrined in custom or legal law and inherited.
• Title - the statutory verbal designation of the official and class-family status of its holders, which briefly defined the legal status.
• Uniform - official uniform that matched and visually expressed titles.

3, What are Classes

The basis of modern stratification is made up of classes. This concept first appeared in the 18th century, it replaced the feudal-class society.

In historical understanding, 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 and 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 again at the board, at the definitions. (A diagram is hung or projected on the board).

Classes:

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

4, What affects people's lifestyles

Q: "What affects people's lifestyles" will you learn on your own by reading the additional text "Half an hour before work"?

5, Lesson outcome Evaluations

6 Homework

Literature:

1. A.I. Kravchenko textbook "Social studies. 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 "The Many Faces of India", M, 1980
4. L.E. Shepelev "Titles, uniforms, orders" M, 1981.

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Notes and tasks for students for the lesson (.doc), volume 43 Kb