social stratification

• Social stratification is a system where people rank and evaluate each other as superior or inferior, and unequally reward one another with wealth, authority, power, and prestige.
• Housing, clothing, and transportation indicate social status, as do hairstyles, taste in accessories, and personal style.
• Symbolic interactionists note that people's appearance reflects their perceived social standing.
• One result of social differentiation is the creation of a number of levels within the society.
• Social stratification is the hierarchical arrangement and establishment of social categories that evolve into a social group together with statuses and their corresponding roles.
• Social stratification is the differentiation of a given population into hierarchically superposed classes.
• Social stratification is manifested in the existence of upper and lower social layers.
• The basis and very essence of social stratification consist in an unequal distribution of rights and privileges, duties and responsibilities, social values and privations, social power and influences among the members of a society.
• Social stratification is distinguished from social differentiation.
• Social differentiation refers to how people can be distinguished from one another.
• People in a group may differ in skin color, hair color, race, mental and physical ability, and the like.
• Social stratification refers to the ranking of people in a society.
• In closed stratification, people cannot change their ranks.
• In open social stratification, people can change their ranks.
• Social stratification is the separation of people into social categories and these categories are ranked as higher or lower.
• There are some people that are treated in another way because of the social status, power, income, prestige and among others that they hold in their society.
• The individual’s position in the social structure is called status.
• The higher or lower positions that come about through social stratifications are called statuses.
• Statuses are not the same.
• One may get different statuses in different ways.
• Statuses can be ascribed or achieved.
• Ascribed statuses are assigned or given by the society or group on the basis of some fixed category, without regard to a person’s abilities or performance.
• These include sex, family background, race, and ethnic heritage.
• There are three types of social mobility: social mobility, geographical mobility, and role mobility.
• Social mobility means a change in social status.
• Sociologists distinguish between two types of systems of stratification: open system and closed system.
• Vertical mobility refers to the movement of people of groups from one status to another.
• Social Mobility refers to the movement upward or downward among the social positions in any given social stratification.
• In the Philippines, when a person belongs to the Ayala’s, Soriano’s, Zobel’s, Villar’s, that person is regarded as belonging to the upper class (rich) status.
• For the anthropologists, they include ethnic system as another type of social stratification.
• Every member of a society has roles to play.
• Social mobility refers to the movement within the social structure, from one social position to another.
• In a democratic state like the Philippines, a person can improve his social status but the degree of mobility varies.
• Generally, there are three types of social stratification: open systems, closed systems and ethnic systems.
• If a person is from a family whose house is situated in the squatter’s area, that person is regarded as poor or belonging to lower class status.
• The societies differ from each other to extent in which individuals can move from one class or status level to another.
• People in society continue to move up down the status scale, this movement is called ‘social mobility’.
• In an open system, every individual is provided equal opportunities to compete for the role and status derived regardless of gender, race, religion, family background and political inclination.
• Children of sultans and datus are highly regarded as rich.
• Different situations call for enactment of various roles.