Social stratification and social mobility caribbean studies
1. Social Stratification and Social Mobility in the Caribbean
Planters (plantocracy)
Upper income groups
Upper stratum
wealthy property owners
Whites
book-keepers, overseers, agents
Upper Stratum
Artisans, merchants, middlemen
Professionals
Middle Stratum
Blacks coloureds &
Free African
Slaves
Artisans, pharmacists, shopkeepers
Free blacks
lawyers, merchants, small
Mulattoes
Middle Stratum
entrepreneurs
Lower stratum
Domestic slaves
Lower Stratum
blue collar/working class
Activity: Answer these questions in your note books or on the overleaf.
Chattel/property of slave owner
Field slaves
1.
What factor determined whether or not a slave was a filed slave or a domestic
slave?
Figure 3
- blacks
-coloureds
Indians, Chinese
2. What period of Caribbean history does figure two best represent?
Figure 1
3.
Complete the following table.
Figure 1
Planters (plantocracy)
Figure 2
Figure 3
Factor used to rank groups
Upper stratum
Open or closed
Whites book-keepers, overseers, agents
Type of status
Artisans, merchants, middlemen
4.
Identify the stratum in which a wealthy, light skinned educated, mulatto would
fall in figure two.
5.
What factors are primarily responsible for emergence of the type of social
stratification evident in figure three?
