Political Science Community Setting and Relationship Question

Questions:

I. Describe what you understand by “Power”.

II. Explain what “social stratification” consists of and briefly develop the “systems of social stratification”

Rules:

Min 1200 words. Max. 1800 words

Times New Roman 12 and 1.5 spacing

APA v7 referencing

Context:

Question 1:

– Understanding that “Power” is, generically, “all the set of means capable of coercing others into a certain behavior”.

– Understand the difference between social power and political power.

Question 2

– Understand that in order to describe the inequalities between significant sets of individuals in a society, we speak of social stratification.

− Identify each of the social stratification systems: slavery, castes, orders and classes.

− Characterize slavery, castes and orders

− Understand how classes differ from other systems of social stratification (page 190).

− Identify the normal division of classes (upper class, class lower and middle class), as well as their subdivisions.

− Refer to Marx’s theoretical contribution