Discuss the concept of social stratification. include the denfinitions of social

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Discuss the concept of social stratification. include the denfinitions of social inequality and social stratification and define and differentiate between open and closed social stratification strctures. compare, illustrate and dicuss the functional and confilict perspectives on social stratification. also, discuss the layers in the system of strctured inequality in the united states, the correlates of social postion and the three concepts used by max weber to categorize along the continuum. also, discuss poverty in the united states.

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Social stratification:

In all societies people differ from each other on the basis of their age, sex and personal characteristics. Human society is not homogeneous but heterogeneous. Apart from the natural differences, human beings are also differentiated according to socially approved criteria.

So socially differentiated men are treated as socially unequal from the point of view of enjoyment of social rewards like status, power, income etc. That may be called social inequality. The term social inequality simply refers to the existence of socially created inequalities.

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