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    Social stratification describes the system of social standing and ranks that divides society into different categories or classes. It involves a hierarchy where some groups rank higher than others. Modern Western societies typically define social stratification in terms of three social classes: the upper class, middle class, and lower class. All societies arrange their members in terms of superiority, inferiority, and equality through social stratification.

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    Social stratification describes the system of social standing and ranks that divides society into different categories or classes. It involves a hierarchy where some groups rank higher than others. Modern Western societies typically define social stratification in terms of three social classes: the upper class, middle class, and lower class. All societies arrange their members in terms of superiority, inferiority, and equality through social stratification.

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    Social stratification describes the system of social standing and ranks that divides society into different categories or classes. It involves a hierarchy where some groups rank higher than others. Modern Western societies typically define social stratification in terms of three social classes: the upper class, middle class, and lower class. All societies arrange their members in terms of superiority, inferiority, and equality through social stratification.

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    SOCIAL

    STRATIFICATION
    UCSP
    SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
    is used to describe the system of social standing. It is used to
    describe society into different categories, ranks or classes during
    the early times hence, this division led to social inequality and
    opportunity. Now a day's stratified society is all about classification
    of persons into groups based on shared socio-economic
    conditions. It describes the way in which different groups of people
    are placed within society.
    In modern Western societies, social stratification is typically
    defined in terms of three social classes: the upper class,
    the middle class, and the lower class. In turn, each class
    can be subdivided into the upper-stratum, the middle-
    stratum, and the lower stratum. Moreover, a social stratum
    can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe, or
    caste, or all four.
    All societies arrange their members in terms of superiority, inferiority and
    equality.
    Stratification is a process of interaction or differentiation whereby some
    people come to rank higher than others.
    When individuals and groups are ranked, according to some commonly
    accepted basis of valuation in a hierarchy of status levels based upon the
    inequality of social positions, social stratification occurs.
    Social stratification means division of society into different strata or layers.
    It involves a hierarchy of social groups.
    Members of a particular layer have a common identity.
    They have a similar lifestyle.
    Types of Social
    Stratification
    Caste is a hereditary endogamous social group in which a person's rank and
    its accompanying rights and obligations are ascribed on the basis of his birth
    into a particular group.

    For example:

    Brahmin Kshatriya Vaishya Sudra


    Class-Stratification on the basis of class is dominant in modern society. In
    this, a person's position depends to a very great extent upon achievement
    and his ability to use to advantage the inborn characteristics and wealth that
    he may possess.
    Estate system of medieval Europe provides another system of stratification
    which gave much emphasis to birth as well as to wealth and possessions.
    Each estate had a state.
    Slavery had economic basis. In slavery, every slave had his master to whom
    he was subjected. The master's power over the slave was unlimited.
    Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste, or
    ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other
    close personal relationship.
    Exogamy is the social norm of marrying outside one's social group. The
    group defines the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and
    enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity
    Meritocracy is a political system in which economic goods and/or political
    power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and
    achievement, rather than wealth or social class.
    Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households, or
    other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a
    change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given
    society.
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    Presented by: Messiah Bosi & Dominique Zinampan

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