Social Stratification

Social stratification is the division of a society according to four things: age, class, gender, and ethnicity. Social stratification explains, basically, why inequality exists among us today.

Let’s start off with Age. Age in social stratification means that you’re discriminated against because of you’re age, either how young or old you are. Some examples would be how certain playgrounds say only 12 and under can play in it or how only senior citizens can live in certain places and etc.

 

Class is next. Class basically means your status, as is how much money you have. There are three classes: high class (wealthy), middle class (average), low class (poor). Now-a-days certain items that only used to broadcast to the high class now broadcasts to all three classes such as cruises, cars, even expensive chocolates.

Gender brings a new trail to the mix. People are sometimes discriminated against because of their gender (cough, cough, females.) An example would be how in our society, females and males would have the same exact job, yet the males get paid more. Why? Because they’re guys and supposedly, as said in a previous blog made by Raul, their genetic makeup makes them inherently better then us females. Though there are feminists people in the world trying to set the equality standard for us females, it will never be exactly equal between the two genders.

Ethnicity, as we all should know, has a HUMOUNGOUS part in being divided and discriminated in a society. It’s a horrible thing, that someone is judged and set to certain standards just because of a skin color, even though, as the great Martin Luther King Jr. once said in a speech, “ if you prick us do we not bleed? . . . If you cut us what color do we both bleed? RED!”