CATIONTIFISRA

STRATIFICATION
CIALSO
SOCIAL
CALLITIPO
POLITICAL
FLICTCON
RYEOTH
CONFLICT
THEORY
 BOLICSYM
RACTIONINTEISM
 SYMBOLIC
INTERACTIONISM
TIONAFUNCLISM
FUNCTIONALISM
 SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL
STRATIFICATION
OBJECTIVES:
1. Define Social and Political Stratification;

2. Examine social stratification from the functionalist and conflict

perspectives; and

3. Examine the concept, characteristics and forms of stratification

system using sociological perspectives.
 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
• Social stratification refers to the division of large social groups into
smaller groups based on categories determined by economics.
Members of society are arranged in hierarchy based on their access to
or control over basic economic resources.
• Term use by sociologist to describe the system of social standing.
 COMMON BASIS OF
SOCIAL
STRATIFICATION
Wealth Property Gender
Access Race and Access to material and
to religion cultural goods
political
power
 SOCIAL MOBILITY
• Social mobility is the ability of individuals or the groups to change their positions
within a social stratification system.
• b) Intergenerational mobility
- social position that changes over multiple generations.
- a measure of the equality of the opportunities, reflecting the extent to which
parents influence the success of their children.
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