Life in the Middle Age was difficult.?

Question

During those time there was 3 divisions within society. Nobility, peasantry and clergy. Do we have those kind of groupings today that people had so many years ago?

Answer 1

Now we have whiners, extremists and gays. Life just keeps getting better, doesn't it?

Answer 2

It depends on where you live in the planet. If you are talking about class differences, the have's and the have nots it's huge in third world countries. If you are talking about Europe then I can't say, I've never been there and I don't know from the news. The continent of North America does have a different situation. The neighbors to the south want to move north and Mexico does appear to indeed have at least those three divisions.

I guess the answer is those groupings appear in underdeveloped countries. Ah corruption will never end.

Answer 3

No.

Nobility has only a fraction of the power it used to (yeah, some nobles and royalty are still very rich...but not like the, uh, good ol' days. Not like when they owned everything and the serfs were just sharecroppers.)

Peasants...not usually. Yes, there are sweatshops and indentured-servant-style laborers...but now we recognize that kind of thing as violating human rights. It's gone underground.

Clergy--again, it's not like it used to be. There are religious schools, but there aren't as many monks and nuns and clergy doesn't have the power and influence (and massive amounts of wealth) that it used to.

I mean, the Pope's not hurting for money...but most clergy don't have nearly the dough they used to...blame it on schisms and Protestantism.

So, no, society isn't like that anymore.

Answer 4

No today's social strata are much more complex.

There's Elite, Upper Class, upper Middle class, middle class, lower middle class, and lower classes.

In these divisions are subdivisions based on geography, career and race. For example, a mid-level manager at a large corporation in Oklahoma might be upper middle class, but the same person in New York City would be lower middle class.

Even business owners, in prevous eras solidly nobility, today are increasingly middle class. There is also a new elite class in America waaaaay above upper class. These are people to whom a $500,000.00 car is not an extravagence.

Answer 5

This did stop and there were not these divides, but sadly now, it would seem that it is creeping up on us again. The divide is being created because of money, the cost of living, the heavy and fast pace we live in. The biggest difference between the employed and the non employed.
It is the case of history repeating itself. Not perhaps in quite the same way as the middle ages but there are similarities

Answer 6

Sure, its called classism, racism, and sexism.Of course every group looks out for its own. At least these days in the US peasants the don't have to wade through sewage and dodge tossed human waste, and women don't have to die in childbirth after numerous stillbirths and miscarriages. Within the law, basic rights are not denied to anyone, unless the government deems them an "enemy."

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Hate to have to tell you Amer has the nobles. Which we call Corporations. and the Peon. are the people who work for less then the price of rent. The Church seems less powerful today them in the time of kings and knights
Jan

Answer 9

In some cases - Tibet, for instance - the clergy WAS the nobility.

CD

Answer 10

Yes. Society has always been stratified. We use different labels but the sifting is the same.

Answer 11

We certainly seem to be returning to that kind of society.