Social
status structure gives a framework for people's roles in the society
based on their economic powers. If we consider any of the ancient
civilizations, their social status structures were all the same and
it was diagrammatically presented in a triangular shape in which it
was horizontally divided into 3 or 4 rows that represents social
classes from upper class to lower class respectively from top to
bottom. Rulers, Priests, government officials and warriors were
considered as the upper class people who were dominated the society
by controlling the rules and regulations of laws.
Below
them in social status structure, a large group of free people such as
farmers, artisans and crafts people. The demands of the upper class
people for the luxury items such as jewelery and pottery encouraged
the artisan and crafts people to create new products. These upper
class people also bought food items from farmers too.
Whereas
the slaves, the bottommost class of every social status structures in
every ancient civilizations, were used by the upper class people as
the reliable source of cheap labor which costing no more than the
minimum of food and lodging.
Comments
Post a Comment