Stratification structures may take various forms of which four are typical: 1. Slavery 2. Estates 3. Caste 4. Class. Stratification Structure: Form # 1. Slavery: Slavery is an age-old institution. It prevailed in its extreme form in ancient Greece and Rome and in the southern states of the U.S.A. in the eighteenth century and continued till the third quarter of [...]
It is argued by some that social stratification is a phenomenon peculiar to capitalist societies alone, and that society is not stratified in socialist countries in which the means of production are communally owned or controlled. The basic assumption of such an assertion is that communal ownership of the forces of production paves the way toward an egalitarian society. Classes [...]
In this article we will discuss about the horizontal and vertical mobility in society. The movement can obviously occur in any of three directions - from lower to higher, from higher to lower, or between two positions at the same level. The first two types of movement are known as vertical mobility and the third one as horizontal mobility. In [...]