UCSP (social stratification)

• Social Stratification refers to how societies categorize people based on factors such as wealth, income, education, family background, and power.
• Social Stratification is used to describe the system of social standing.
• Social Stratification is a particular form of social inequality.
• Societies arrange their members in terms of superiority, inferiority and equality through Social Stratification.
• Caste is a hereditary endogamous social group in which a person’s rank and its accompanying rights and obligations are ascribed based on his birth into a particular group.
• Class is a system where a person’s position depends to a very great extent upon achievement and his ability to use to advantage the inborn characteristics and wealth that he may possess.
• Estate is a system of medieval Europe that provides another system of stratification which gave much emphasis to birth as well as to wealth and possessions.
• Slavery is a system where every slave had his master to whom he was subjected, with the master’s power over the slave being unlimited.
• Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationship.
• Exogamy is the social norm of marrying outside one's social group, with the group defining the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity.
• Meritocracy is a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people based on talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class.
• Social Mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.
• Social Mobility is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society.
• priests and teachers

  Brahmins
• Warriors and rulers

  Kshatriyas
• farmers, traders and merchants

  Vaishyas
• labourers

  Shudras
• street sweepers, latrine cleaners

  Dalits
• is a hereditary endogamous social group in which a person’s rank and its accompanying rights and obligations are ascribed based on his birth into a particular group.

  CASTE
• a person’s position depends to a very great extent upon achievement and his ability to use to advantage the inborn characteristics and wealth that he may possess.

  CLASS
• system of medieval Europe provides another system of stratification which gave much emphasis to birth as well as to wealth and possessions.

  ESTATE
• every slave had his master to whom he was subjected. The master’s power over the slave was unlimited.

  SLAVERY
• is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationship

  ENDOGAMY
• is the social norm of marrying outside one's social group. The group defines the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity 


  EXOGAMY
• is a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people based on talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class.

  MERITOCRACY
• refers to how societies categorize people based on factors such as wealth, income, education, family background, and power.

  SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
• used to describe the system of social standing.

  SOCIAL STRATIFICATION