Essays on Social Stratification

Stratification although the points argued by all three theorists touch upon the points of social stratification, each of the ideas are inherently different. Karl Marx mainly focuses on the employer and employee relationship, having inequality only rising from economic disparities. Though Max Weber’s thoughts are similar to Marx’s, he saw that stratification had three components,…

Introduction Stratification is the arrangement or classification of something into various sections. Three categories of stratification are social class, race/ethnicity and gender. Ferris & Stein’s book The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology states that social stratification one form or another is present in all societies this means that members of a given society are…

Social stratification is the creation of layers of people or groups of people based on the unequal access to scarce resources (income, wealth, power, and prestige). Each layer in the system is known as a social class. There are three perspectives on stratification; functionalist, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. The functionalist perspective exists in society…