V It is a system of society

wherein individuals are ranked

and categorized according to
valued things such as income,
wealth, prestige, fame, social
honor, or power.
V2his refers to the level or
category where persons
have more or less the
same socio-economic
privileges in society.
V2his refers to the
position of an
individual or group
within a social
structure.
V@chieved Status
V@scribed Status
V2he behavior
expected of a
person who
occupies a
particular status.
V@chieved Role
V@scribed Role
V
losedSystem
VOpen System
V2he stratification based on
ascribed statuses or statuses
that are assigned to people
because of either innate
traits or social
characteristics of parents.
VSlave System
@ closed system wherein
some individuals are
considered property from the
time of birth.
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ww.
VOstate System
@ closed stratification system
based on the ownership of
land.
˜
leric, Knight, and Workman˜ the three estates in a French medieval illumination.
V
aste System
@ closed stratification system
wherein the strata is average
in order of superiority-
inferiority.

aste System in India
V@ system of stratification
wherein the status of individual
or group is based on
achievements rather than
ascribed. Sometimes it is
better to known as ´class
systemµ.
°. Oconomic forces give rise to social class.
2.
lass struggle between owners and
workers.
3. Proletarianism
4. 2he government is the arm of the
capitalist.
5. Revolution will end the class system and
a communist system will emerge.
°.Oconomic Order
2.Social Order
3.Political Order
V 2he belief that stratification is
both necessary and useful in
accomplishing tasks that are
essential to the survival of a
society and it also ensures that
the most important position in the
society are filled by most qualified
persons.
V2he belief that the
stratification exists because
the members of society are
in constant struggle for
economic, political and
social rewards.
V2he movement of
people from one
position to another in
the stratification
system.
V2he movement by
individuals or groups from
one position to another in
the society which does not
involve a shift into a higher
or lower stratum.
V2he movement by
individuals or group into
either a higher or lower
stratum.
V@ change in social position
over the course of person·s
lifetime.
V Sex
V Race
V Mental @bility
V @mbition
V Oducation
V Status of Parents
V Physical @ppearance
V2he movement in a
stratification system from
the level occupied by a
persons parents.
V In the Oconomic Inequality, there is a wide
gap between the rich and the poor.
V In the Status inequality, blue-collar jobs are
´no-classµ positions.
V In Power Inequality, those who are in the
government position are powerful while the
masses are weak.
V Some positions which deserved high
esteem and regard are dishonored and
neglected.
V 2he rich becomes richer and the poor
becomes poorer.
V Oducation remains to be the best way to a
chance for a better life.
V 2he poor has to go to other countries (if he
can afford) to become well-off.
V 2o become richer and powerful, one has to
become a politician or a celebrity.
V 2o become prestigious and famous, one
has to be in show business.
Vthis includes those who are
highly wealthy prestigious
and powerful at the same
time.
Vthis includes those who
have high incomes and
hold prestigious occupation
such as physicians and
lawyers.
Vthis includes clerical and
sales personnel as well as
skilled and unskilled workers.
V this includes those who have a
very low income, the elderly,
recent immigrants, criminals,
transients, beggars, people with
no job skills, people who have
fallen into poverty, or even below
poverty line.