Social_Stratification

Social Stratification Everywhere you go you attempt to classify all that you see. Every stimulus goes into some specific group or ranking. This is a necessary aspect of life in order to make sense of the world in which we live. However, one must begin to wonder if some of this classifying has negative aspects. People placed in a certain group might have more privileges and advantages than others. Social Stratification has become important in identifying why certain people get certain things. According to our textbook social stratification is viewed as, “the ranking or grading of individuals and groups into hierarchical layers.”(Hughes, 171) This in turn “…represents structured inequality in the allocation of rewards, privileges, and resources.” (Hughes 171) This brings up some interesting questions. Is there any way that equality is possible' Will there always be poverty in our society' With the help of our textbook, as well as outside sources I plan on studying the current trends of stratification. Along with this I hope to show that while not impossible, total equality is quite unrealistic. It’s a subject that I’m sure has been on a lot of peoples mind since poverty, people, stratification, one, equality, system, society, children, america, united, states, social, poor, out, live, however, control, been, yet, should, marx, labor, class, way, say, resources, power, opportunity, need, must, lot, institutions, hughes, fight, certain