stratification

summary

 Stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of people in a society. This chapter focuses on economic stratification; meaning how people are differentiated based upon their wealth or power. Sociology has a long history of studying stratification and teaching about various kinds of inequality, including economic inequality, racial/ethnic inequality, gender inequality, and other types of inequality. Inequality means people have unequal access to scarce and valued resources in society. These resources might be economic or political, such as health care, education, jobs, property and land ownership, housing, and ability to influence government policy.

opinion

 There are various criteria to distinguish the hierarchy.  However, the reference is not always clear.  In general, members of society, tend to be distinguished from education level, wealth, and honor,
by a variety of sociocultural factors.  Be displayed as a result of this distinction is unequal social phenomena.
Social inequality opportunities for access to social rewards, such as the influence or honor, or property is determined
by the characteristics of the individual and collective characteristics appear. In fact, inequality such, is a phenomenon that, regardless of all ages and countries, found universally in any human society,
but the root cause of the inequality of society, and social honor and material goods is that a valuable resource that is limited. In the end, how precious and scarce resources are allocated in society, but it is what determines the form and character of the social strata.