The Caste System: The Social Theory Of The Caste System

For thousands of years, society has corralled themselves into groups of similar social status. This is the human caste system. At the bottom of the caste system lays the working lower class; at the middle of the system lays the middle class; above all else, lays the rich upper class. The system revolves around three fundamental properties in which each human being is categorized: power, knowledge, and the concept of “hidden rules.” Whomever has the most wealth, has the most power. This is the first fundamental property known as power. In a 2010 United States consensus of about 309.3 million people, and through a report conducted by Professor G. William Domhoff, the upper 1% class controls 35.4% of the wealth with a population of 3.1 million people, the middle 19% class controls 53.5% of the wealth with a population of 58.8 million people, and the lower 80% class controls 11.1% of the wealth with a population of 247.4 million people. The upper class has less people to share money with and with more than 1/4th of the share of the net wealth, they have more money for

This set is called Hidden Rules. The hidden rules are concepts taken into consideration over how one implicitly reveals their class. For example, imagine a person dressed in a white tank top with sagging blue jeans speaking in a nonsensible dialect. It is easily determinable that this person is from a poverty-stricken family since they do not have the hidden rule for clothing and language, discussed earlier. The hidden rules are just like the ideas of secret societies using secret passcodes and handshakes to identify one another; this is true. In Britain, to distinguish oneself as a wealthy Brit, there is a slight change in accent. It is these minuscule discrepancies of hidden rules are what categorizes each human being into their respective