"Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political)."
The division of society into hierarchies based on factors such as wealth, race, class, and gender.
Social Class: The division of people into groups based on their economic, occupational, and educational status.
Race and Ethnicity: The ways in which race and ethnicity impact a person's social standing and access to resources and opportunities.
Gender: The ways in which gender impacts a person's social standing, including gender-based discrimination, access to education and employment opportunities, and gender-based violence.
Caste System: A social hierarchy in which a person's position is determined by birth and remains fixed for life.
Education: The impact of educational attainment on a person's social standing and access to opportunities.
Income and Wealth: The ways in which income and wealth impact a person's social standing and access to resources and opportunities.
Power and Prestige: The impact of social power and prestige on a person's social standing, including the ways in which these factors are acquired and maintained.
"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."
"Each class can be subdivided into the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum."
"A social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe, or caste, or all four."
"The categorization of people by social stratum occurs most clearly in complex state-based, polycentric, or feudal societies..."
"Whether social stratification first appeared in hunter-gatherer, tribal, and band societies or whether it began with agriculture and large-scale means of social exchange remains a matter of debate in the social sciences."
"The degree of social inequality determines a person's social stratum."
"Generally, the greater the social complexity of a society, the more social stratification exists, by way of social differentiation."
"Stratification can yield various consequences. For instance, the stratification of neighborhoods based on spatial and racial factors can influence disparate access to mortgage credit."
"The stratification of neighborhoods based on spatial and racial factors can influence disparate access to mortgage credit."
"...socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political)."
"Stratification is the relative social position of persons within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit."
"Social stratification is typically defined in terms of three social classes: the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class."
"A social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe, or caste, or all four."
"Whether social stratification first appeared in hunter-gatherer, tribal, and band societies or whether it began with agriculture and large-scale means of social exchange remains a matter of debate..."
"Determining the structures of social stratification arises from inequalities of status among persons..."
"The stratification of neighborhoods based on spatial and racial factors can influence disparate access to mortgage credit."
"Generally, the greater the social complexity of a society, the more social stratification exists..."
"Each class can be subdivided into the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum."
"The categorization of people by social stratum occurs most clearly in complex state-based, polycentric, or feudal societies..."