Social Stratification
The process by which individuals
and groups are ranked in a more or less enduring hierarchy of status is known
as stratification. Even the most primitive societies had some form of social
stratification. As Sorokin pointed out stratified society with real equality of
its members is a myth that has never been realized in the history of the
mankind. Social stratification means the differentiation of a given population
into hierarchically superimposed classes. It is manifested in the existence of
upper and lower social layer. Its basis and very essence consists in an unequal
distribution of rights and privileges, duties and responsibilities, social
values and privations, social power and influences among the members of a society.
No society is unstratified. Stratification involves the distribution of unequal
rights and privileges among the members of a society. Social stratification is
the division of society into permanent groups or categories linked with each
other by the relationship of superiority and subordination.
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