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There is a trend, observed in recent decades, subsequent to the 1970s, when immense, but largely ignorned, socio-political changes definitely swept through our society. It is the trend towards an increased emphasis on social stratification, thus also economic stratification, creating what I would refer to as micro class structuring, within traditional classes of traditional class structure. Hierarchical layers of stratification that have gained increasingly divisive effect, creating stronger and stronger boundaries, based on where individuals stand within the perceived hierarchical ordering of individuals, according to status (and often degrees of wealth, including social and material capital) within sub groups of class structure group divisions. I think that this trend too has worked very strongly against the arts. Certainly it has changed group dynamics, and mechanisms of group formation, to far more class structured. There are far fewer groups formed, with far fewer being open rather than closed. Far more attempts at group formation fail. A trend that has consistently intensified since the 1970s, when society reached a turning point, reactive to the socio-political left leaning atmosphere of the 1960s. The same trend gaining even greater momentum and power over individual lives, at approximately the time when the Cold War ended. The emphasis on status, based on class, in both micro-societies and the society at large, gaining considerably more potency, at the time of the defeat of Soviet communism. One tends to question whether that resounding defeat of one of the major proponents of left wing politics was the catalyst for intensification of the socially divisive trend. While it is not impossible today to cross class structure lines, the probabilities of success at that, whether in micro or macro sociological terms, are increasingly proving reduced, as social attitudes have changed and continue to change in conformity with the prevailing trend.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 21:17:53 +0000

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