SOCL 2001 Study Guide - Social Stratification, Gated Community, Poverty Threshold
Document Summary
Social stratification is the basis that all members of any society is given a form of classification, divided into all different groups, and arranged into some social hierarchy. Everything that determines you as a person is a factor is deciding where you are grouped, whether its your race, gender, ethnicity, where you live, how much money you make, your occupation. Through this the people that end up in the higher classes get more rewards and have far more recources than the people in the classes underneath them in the rest if the classes. Social stratification just shows us the type of dog eat dog world that we live in, and how no matter how far that we have progressed industrially and technologically, there will always be classes. Its kind of funny how i can relate to this through an xbox game that ive been playing recently.
