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MCEB 212 TOPIC 4
AZMI BIN AHMAD
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Topic 4: Social stratification
• Social stratification is the differences of status and level of person in a
social setting.
• People is differentiate with one another
• This differences can be because of age, gender, expertise, financial
status, hereditary and others.
• Family linage, religion and dialect are among of the basic differences
mainly used by the society.
Topic 4: Social stratification
• Social stratification phenomenon:
• Occurs when social evaluation is performed by one group of people
towards another group of people.
• This social evaluation can be both negative and positive.
• Interaction from people of different social group create hierarchy and
differences of social status.
Topic 4: Social stratification
Layers of
• Social stratification features: people that
form a group
Involving inequality
Every layer of
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people is exclusive
functioning of the
system in nature
Involving inequality due to the Power and resources evolve around those who are superior due
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Layers of people that form Individual who belong in the group would have similar ideology, way of
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a group thinking, values and specific behavior that differentiate from other group.
Every layer of people is None of the group member can have two or more membership
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Every layer of the group is Every member in a group must be a member in one of the layer
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Layer are arrange in The social status is determine by political influence and
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• Caste system:
• Exist since 3000 years ago among the
Caste system Estate system Hindus in India.
• It is a very rigid system and heritable in
nature.
• Mobility is difficult and it is classified
into four main group which are :
Racial and
Modern class
ethnic
Brahmin (priest), Kshatriya (warriors
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stratification and warlord), Vaisha (merchant and
craftsmen) and Sundra (farmer, labor
and servant)
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Topic 4: Social stratification
• Racial stratification and Inequality in the aspect of
job opportunity, influence
Ethnic stratification can
lead to separation and the
ethnicity: and privileges because of emergence of new
skin and ethnicity order/community/country
• The inequality of social status in
the colonial system and
The main group is called the The system can
multiracial community due to majority or the dominance,
influence or coexist
physical and cultural differences. while the lesser group is
called the minority and with other social
frequently mistreated stratification system