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CLOSED-CLASS SOCIETY

Sociologyindex, Sociology Books 2011

A closed-class society is a society where it is improbable that individuals will be able to change their social class location usually because class location is ascribed. 

Closed class society is that society where there is little or no scope of an individual to shift from his original class position.

An example of a closed-class society without social mobility is the Hindu society under the caste system. 

In a closed-class society without social mobility as in the Hindu society, only with rare exceptions could individuals leave the caste into which they were born, regardless of wealth or merit. 

Societies which use slavery are an example of low social mobility because, for the enslaved individuals, mobility is practically nonexistent.

In a closed class society there is pronounced tendencies toward radicalism and revolution.

A closed class society is one in which position is fixed at birth and cannot be changed by individual achievement. 

"Unions are good because they help balance the scales, so those that haven't yet made their way up the social ladder still have a chance to do so."

"Without some kind of balance system, it would be very easy for us to end up in a closed-class-society, where the "American Dream" is closed to the latter generations." 

In an open-class society caste privileges are abolished, work is provided for all, and rewards are based on merit.

We will find closed-class society is where class location is ascribed. The opposite of social mobility. A closed-class society does not allow social mobility. These two types of social class systems represent the ends of a continuum.

“What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.” - Frantz Fanon

The emergence of the European middle classes and the progressive transformation of that closed class society into a pyramid of classes with opportunities for upper mobility, which occurred from the mid-nineteenth century and accelerated after the Second World War until the ‘70’s, stimulated there a long period of re-shaping or reconstruction of the education systems.

This re-shaping was based on the positioning of secondary education as a continuation of primary education, superimposing two very different institutional models without a thorough re-design of either of them (Muller, Ringer and Simon, 1992).

If United States had continued to exist as a slave society or a closed class society, there likely would not have been a need for the development of counseling services.

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