Social Stratification in Modern Capitalist Societies'

Social class plays a big role in educational opportunity in the United States. It is obvious that people in working class receive lower education system and opportunities than people in middle and upper classes. People in working class also have harder times in economic, social and occupational circumstances than middle and upper classes. Social class affects educational opportunity in many ways such as environment, neighborhood, type of education systems and parental support.

The social indicators can be used to identify stratification and inequalities within a social structure.  Stratification is the ranking of groups using a systematic hierarchical system (Durkin & Carrothers, 2015).  Stratification is the preference of a certain group with privileges to greater opportunities on success than others.  The preference and privileges form inequalities within the social structure.  Social inequality is the unequal distribution of power that often results in conditions of differing wealth, prestige, and status (Durkin & Carrothers, 2015).  The relationship between stratification and inequalities can be evaluated by social indicators.  Social indicators are measurable data within a social structure.

The three different systems of social stratification in society are slavery, castes, and social classes. Slavery is the most extreme form of social inequality, where enslaved people are treated a property that can be bought, sold, and used however the owner wants. A caste system is one where social

The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology defines inequality as ‘the unequal distribution of opportunities, rewards, and power among and between individuals, households and groups’(1). It goes on to say that ‘the subfield of social stratification has as its main task the description and analysis of inequalities, or the makeup of the stratification system of any given society’.(1) From this one definition, we can already begin to see the strong links that lie between inequalities and social stratification. As we delve deeper into the topics, we can begin to see both the inevitability and the functionality of stratification

Social Stratification in the African American community has changed over the years. Social stratification is defined as a rigid subdivision of a society into a hierarchy of layers, differentiated on the basis of power, prestige, and wealth according to Webster’s dictionary. David Newman in Sociology Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life describes stratification as a ranking system for groups of people that perpetuates unequal rewards and life chances in society. From slavery to the present, the African American community has been seen to have lower status compared to white people. Today, the stratification or hierarchy difference between whites and black are not really noticeable, but it is still present. However, during

Economic stratification is the different rankings in social class are separated in different economic ways. These differences can vary from clothing, cars, perfumes, cigarette brands, etc. There are many ways you can tell what a person stratification is just by the way they look or the things they have. Usually these ranking go from lower class to middle class then the upper class. Each of these classes have very different ways of living and what they do to maintain a certain status.

The social stratification of people can be affected by many things. In most cases people are affected by economic factors. In class we watched documentaries that shows different economic struggles and other structural inequalities. The documentaries were Violence Next Door: Growing up in the Favelas and The Other Side of Immigration. They both showed different economic factors from different places.

These four major social stratifications come together and form some type of people systematically experience advantages in society while other types of people are systematically disadvantaged in our society. Some members of our society are thought of as haves, and others are thought of as have-nots. It determines who is socially advantaged and who is included among the ranks of the socially disadvantaged is based, in part, on certain characteristics these individuals possess and, in part, on how society values or devalues these characteristics. Slavery is the one characteristic that faces the most disadvantage. Slavery is a system of stratification in which one person owns another, as he or she would own property, and exploits the slave’s labor for economic gain. Slaves are one of the lowest categories in any stratification system, as they possess virtually no power or wealth of their own. Many

The positioning of the lower class makes it hard to get out of it. Being in this position makes getting a good education hard because the quality of the education the children are getting does not compare to the upper classes education. With more money the better education received which leads to better jobs to make more money. With this cycle going in the upper class the lower class can not keep up. An aspect of social inequality is social

Furthermore, sociologist utilize the term stratification as a position of an individual’s position in a geographic location, category or social unit (Mostafa, 2015, p. 3). Socioeconomic stratification can be grouped into several different subgroups; education lies under the social category. Sociologist state the access to proper education is a function of economic class, location of where on resides and quality of the teachers. (Mostafa, 2015, pg. 9). If one is a part of a higher economic class it results in them residing in a nicer neighborhood, in which, the neighborhood reflects the school. A school that is located in a well to do neighborhood has a higher quality of education. Where on the other hand, in a lower impoverished neighborhood will have a school that lacks proper

Social Stratification is inequality in the system that we see every day in a society clearly divided by power, status and wealth.

Class-divisions can be seen as good or bad, they help and harm our society. One of the benefits of social stratification is the ability to have a unique job, without class-divisions we would not be able to have different jobs. Not only that but class-divisions help keep a steady economy. Although there are benefits of social stratification, there are also negative impacts. Class-divisions give the idea of being unequal in every aspect of one’s

Social stratification is defined as a system by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. For example, There are fundamental principles of stratification:

What is social stratification? Social stratification is societies way of categorizing people based on their occupation, income, wealth, race and social status.

Social Stratification is a term used by sociologists to describe inequalities that exist between society and us as individuals and can also be described as a hierarchy with the less privileged people at the bottom and the more favoured people at the top. (Giddens, 2006)