social stratification

What is social stratification

• A system by which employees of a company are divided into categories of different job positions

• A system by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy based on wealth, status or power

• A system of categorisation of people on basis of race, ethnicity and gender

There are how many important principles of social stratification

• 6

• 8

• 4

Social Standing is influenced by

• broader social factors like Social Stratification

• individual talents and efforts

Even with social stratification, social mobility is possible

• true

• false

Social mobility is possible

• vertical (upward and downward)

• horizontal

• both

• only vertical

social stratification is

• achieved

• inherited (from parents)

types of social stratification

• age, ethnicity, gender, social class

• age, ethnicity, gender, social capital

Which perspective views social stratification as beneficial

• structural functionalism

• symbolic interactionism

• social conflict

• post modernism

form of social stratification that is inherited and it is difficult to achieve social mobility

• class

• caste

• income

Ageism is Discrimination against

• young people

• older people

• babies

• middle aged people