Children's concept of social stratification

• Main Authors: Alpapara, Sarah Gail, Altonaga, Enrico Ariel, Crisol, Candice
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1992
• Subjects: Concepts; Social classes; Identity (Psychology) in children; School children; Poor children; x2 Social stratification
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/16185
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study aimed to discover the concepts of rich or poor by interviewing children ages 4 to 6 and 7 to 10 years old. Sixty subjects were taken from Southville International School, Little Peoples Montessori, Marymount, and Padre Burgos. Twenty subjects were derived from each school to represent the responses of both the early school and the pre-school. On the other hand, two schools had to be taken to represent the responses of the middle class. Each respondent was first asked to draw, then was interviewed using the visual aids, and was finally asked their descriptions on where they belong in Philippine social strata.Social stratification, especially in the Philippines, is referred to as the divisions among individuals in terms of the social, political, and economic aspects of life. However, class distinctions cannot come about without the natural development of social awareness among children. The development of concepts move from simple to complex types. Simple, as in the case of an infant, where naming and pointing is first required before the child could name an object. Complex, which develops as the child ages and as his sphere of socialization increases.The findings have stated that children usually measure one's wealth in terms of possessions and housing. Possessions could refer to money and to not having money . Male responses have proven to be fewer than female responses in the pre-school stage of life. However, it was also seen that as age increases, male responses have already been able to cope with the answers of the females. It was also discovered that upper class children gave more answers than the two other classes. The middle class, on the other hand, has played a very silent role significant of no knowledge answers.