Change in the concept of social stratification in 2000 and after: Intra-class divisions and the precariat

In this study, it is desired to understand how social stratification and class perception underwent a change in and after 2000. It is desired to analyze the precariat class because it reflects this change well. It is seen that the concept of class or stratification described in traditional theories has changed after globalization. The need arises to be able to explain the new forms that emerged with this change, and to analyze the social classes that take a layered form within themselves. Stratification and class structure in a society provide information about the social structure and reality of that society. The aim of this study is to analyze the changing stratification and class structure and to explain the change through the precariat class. Especially in 2000 and later, with the effect of the globalization phenomenon, a change occurs in the forms of social stratification with horizontal and vertical mobility. There is now also a division between layers. This situation is handled in the form of in-class divisions in the study. Class divisions are important as they are an indicator of the change in class structure. It is aimed to analyze the social classes that have become layered and complex and to deal with the precariat within the framework of all these changes. The precariat class embodies the effects of the global and neoliberal economic transformations that date back to the 1970s and the various reasons discussed in the thesis on social classes. Flexible and precarious employment, no union, the withering of class consciousness, etc. The precariat constitutes a suitable example in order to explained. In this study, studies related to the precariat in the last 20 years are discussed with the descriptive analysis method based on the literature review. The aim of the research is to explain the changes that occurred in and after the year 2000, and to analyze these changes over the precariat class. In order to achieve this aim, descriptive analysis method based on literature review is preferred. As a result of this study, it has been revealed that there is a different change in the social change and class appearance in 2000 and later than the classical explanations and the reasons for this change. It is seen that the precariat, which is not yet seen as a class, will be a subject that will occupy social sciences in today's world full of precariousness and uncertainties.