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Ucsp Quarter 2th Module 4 Ss

The document discusses the concept of social desirables, which are resources valued by society, including power, prestige, and wealth. It explains how these factors influence social status and mobility, highlighting issues such as income inequality and discrimination. The text also outlines the different bases of legitimacy for power and the distinctions between achieved and ascribed prestige.

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Ucsp Quarter 2th Module 4 Ss

The document discusses the concept of social desirables, which are resources valued by society, including power, prestige, and wealth. It explains how these factors influence social status and mobility, highlighting issues such as income inequality and discrimination. The text also outlines the different bases of legitimacy for power and the distinctions between achieved and ascribed prestige.

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Statification System:

Social Desirables

Module 4

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Social desirables- are resources
considered valuable by societies.
It refer to factors that are
somewhat accepted or desired in a
certain society.
It may be associated with social
status, popularity and acceptance.
Three important
of Social
Desirables
UNIT STIMULUS

Power
Prestige
Wealth

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Social Desirables

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Power Prestige Wealth

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It describes the social
standing of individuals
POWER
It is the capacity of an individual or
group usually determine its capacity for
influence in decision making in society
to determine the norms that are often
more beneficial for the elite than for the
majority who are bound to follow them.
It involves benefits and privileges
Social Desirables

Power
● ability to command
others despite
resistance
● has three bases for
legitimacy

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Legitimacy (acceptable exercise of power)

Traditional Charisma Rational-legal

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Wealth
 Itpertains to the accumulated economic
capital of an individual or group
 Marxist perspective argues that the
differentiation in wealth creates social,
economic and political inequality which
ultimately promotes social suffering
among the dis-advantage.
Social Desirables

Wealth
● material assets
● money and all the
things it can buy
● can be intangible, like
stocks and investments
● easiest to measure

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Prestige
Itrefers to the reputation or esteem
associated with ones position in Society.
A person can earn prestige by his or her
own achievements which is known as
achieved status, or they can be placed in
the stratification system by their
inherited position, which is called
ascribed status.
Social Desirables

Prestige
● respect and admiration
given by society
● different social statuses
have different level of
prestige

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Social Desirables
White-collar job Blue-collar job

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Social Status

Position held by an
individual in society

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3 Social Classes

1. Upper class,
2. Middle class
3. Lower class
It pertains to the movement of a person or group
from one social status to another. It can be
classified as follows:
a. Horizontal mobility d. Downward Mobility
b. Vertical Mobility e. Inter-generational
TYPES OF SOCIAL
MOBILITY
1.
2.

3.
4.

5.
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.
4 major causes of income
inequality in our country
1. The rising proportion of urban
households

2. Age distribution changes


3. Increasing number of
highly educated household

4. wage rate inequality.


These people are also
discriminated and their physical
impairments become basis of denial
and equal opportunity in
employment.
The END!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
COOPERATION. GOD
BLESS

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