Social And Economic Stratification Analysis

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The concept of social and economic stratification
About the second dimension, Esping-Andersen (1990, 55-78) writes that the states influence social stratification through its welfare policies, which means to stop the existing inequality and promote the level of class equality. Referring to the third Page 5 dimension, Esping- Andersen (1990, 79) states that both the public and the private sector plays important role in the welfare provision in many societies. Within the social welfare states social stratification refers to the way the followed system affects individual’s status in society, or in other words, it is “an active force considering social relation” and provide a way to change the …show more content…

Nordic states have managed to combine high taxes, low social and economic inequality and strong welfare system with satisfactory economic growth seem in long term perspective. Welfare states have reform to adjust demographic and economic challenges and to retain dynamism and innovativeness in the economy, and comprehensive public welfare commitment has clearly gone hand in hand satisfactory economic and social development, and stable political development increasing exposure to global culture, economy and …show more content…

The collapse of Swedish empire and the weakening position of nobility in the early 19th century became a peripheral area in the expanding of the capitalist world economy (Wallerstein 1980: 203:226). The early industrialization in the Nordic welfare states was usually based on the success of export industries. The early working class was consisting of industrial worker and in the beginning of the period of mass parties in Nordic states became dominated by the three-polar class, structure that was the urban class, the working class and the farmers. During the war period, the growth of industrialization was so faster and it was expanded after the World War Second with the sharing of agriculture population which was below one-third in Denmark, Norway, and

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