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Direction: Read the given text below.
Then,
answer each question properly.
What do you think is the effect of online learning to
different social classes if this type of learning
opportunity becomes standard in Philippine education
during the time of COVID-19 pandemic? Write your
insights on the space provided.
Concept, Characteristics and
Forms of Stratification
Systems
Stratification System
Social stratification is the classification of
people into socioeconomic class, based upon
their occupation and income, wealth and social
status.
Forms of Stratification Systems
1. Close System of
Stratification
India’s Caste
System is
probably one of
the best-known
forms of close
system of
stratification
The system required endogamy - marriage within your own caste
category. In everyday life, the caste system determines whom one
could interact with, and how, with systems of social control,
contact between lower and higher castes is restricted.
2. Open System of Stratification
Class System is one of the best examples of open system of
stratification and is not based solely on ascribed status at
birth alone. Instead, it combines ascribed status and
personal achievement or achieved status in a way that
allows some social
mobility.
Social desirables are resources
considered valuable by societies.
Characteristics of Stratification Systems
1. Universal but variable. Social stratification is what

we are talking about when we talk about social
inequality and social mobility. Society categorizes
people and ranks them in a hierarchy.
Social mobility refers to changes of
individuals, families, households, or other
categories of people within or between social
class in a society.
Types of Social Mobility
1. Horizontal mobility
This happen when a person changes their occupation but
their overall social standing remains unchanged.
2. Vertical mobility
It is a change in the occupational, political, or religious
status of a person that causes a change in their societal
position. A person or social object moves from one social
class to another.
3. Upward mobility
It is when a person moves from a lower position in
society to a higher one. It can also include people
occupying higher positions in the same societal group.
However, upward mobility, while seen as a good thing,
can also come at a cost for individuals.
4. Downward mobility
It takes place when a person moves from a higher
position in society to a lower one. It happen when
someone is caught performing a wrongful act that can
result in the loss of the position they currently hold.
5. Inter-generational mobility
This happen when the social position changes from
one generation to another. The change can be upward
or downward.
6. Intra-generational mobility
Change in societal position occurs during the lifespan
of a single generation. It can also refer to a change in
position between siblings. One way is when a person
climbs up the corporate ladder in their career.
2. Not a matter of individual differences. People are obviously
different from each other, so we might assume that
stratification is just a kind of natural outcome of differences,
but in reality, it is not.
3. Persists across generations. Stratification serves to categorize

and rank
members of society across generations, resulting in different
life chances. Yet generally, society allows some degree of
social mobility, or changes in the positionwithin the social
hierarchy.
4. A social beliefs. A society’s cultural beliefs tell us how to

categorize people, and they define inequalities of a
stratification system as being normal, or even fair. If people
Social Stratification in Sociological Perspectives
1. Functionalism.
At the beginning, we may think of social stratification as
merely only creating social inequality among groups of
people. In some aspects of social life, it is true. But social
inequality brought by social stratification base from wealth,
prestige, and power of social groups, is indeed functional in
the society according to Functionalist Theory.
2. Conflict Theory.
This sociological perspective is the opposite of the
latter. Karl Marx viewed social stratification as
creation of inequality between the rich and the
poor, or the powerful versus the powerless.
3. Symbolic Interactionism.
Symbolic interactionism views social stratification
on a micro level where individuals affect others
whom they have interacted because of their social
class status.
ACTIVITY:
The Philippine Pre-Colonial Social Stratification

Over the course of this lesson, you have informed about the
concept,
characteristics, and forms of stratification systems. Did you
know that before the Philippines were colonized by the
Spaniards, Americans, and Japanese, the Philippine pre-
colonial society was already establishing social stratification
through factors such as wealth, power, rights, privileges,
entitlement and achievements? Meet these groups of people
one by one once again by reading the given description.
Afterwards, answer the activity below.
The TIMAWA. They were the majority of the barangay community. They were
free. They could acquire property, have any job they wanted, pick their own
wives, and acquire an alipin. They were expected to support the datu and pay
their taxes; hence, their importance in the community was evident.
The MAGINOO. They were the ruling class, the educated class, the royal class,
and the privileged class. It was from this class which the datu came from. The
datu was the head of the community called a barangay. He is synonymous to a
monarch, rajah, sultan, and king to other countries.
The ALIPIN. They had the least rights. They served their master who belonged
to one of the classes that is above them. The Alipin was likely his or her servant
at home such as doing the household chores and cooking, or aided the timawa
with their duties at work.
The MAHARLIKA. They were well respected if not revered by the barangay.
Unlike
the timawa, they were not expected to pay taxes. They would provide protection
to the barangay and were responsible for providing and preparing the weapons
at their own expense.
Direction: Using the names of the groups
of people mentioned earlier, arrange them
using a pyramid of social stratification
through these factors such as wealth,
power, rights, privileges, entitlement, and
achievements in the society. Beside each
social
class, draw a symbol that represents them.

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1. Universal but variable. Social stratification is what

3. Persists across generations. Stratification serves to categorize

4. A social beliefs. A society’s cultural beliefs tell us how to

The Philippine Pre-Colonial Social Stratification

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