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	Social Stratification
		Social Stratification is the ranking of people in a vertical arrangement (hierarchy) that differentiates them as superior or inferior.
		Racial and ethnic stratification refers systems of inequality in which some fixed groups membership, such as race, religion, or national origin is a major criterion for ranking social positions and their differential rewards.
		Stratification is unjust, divisive, and a source of social instability or change" (p.
	www.unm.edu /~soc101/stratification1.htm (668 words)

	Social Stratification
		Social stratification lies at the core of society and of the discipline of sociology.
		Social inequality is a fundamental aspect of virtually all social processes, and a person's position in the stratification system is the most consistent predictor of his or her behavior, attitudes, and life chances.
		Social inequality is the primary focus of social stratification.
	sociologyindex.com /stratification.htm (923 words)

	Sorokin - The Work - Social Stratification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Social stratification, to Sorokin, means "the differentiation of a given popu- lation into hierarchically superposed classes." Such stratification, he held, is a permanent characteristic of any organized social group.
		Whether one studies economic, political, or occupational stratification, Sorokin contended, one must always be attentive to two distinct phenomena: the rise or decline of a group as a whole and the increase or decrease of strat- ification within a group.
		Exterior features of the architecture of social structures having been sketched, Sorokin proceeds to summarize their inner construction, to wit the character and disposition of the floors, the elevators, and the staircases that lead from one story to another; the ladders and accommodations for climbing up and going down from story to story.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Sorokin/SOROKW4.HTML (1322 words)

	Social stratification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social stratification is a sociological term for the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, castes, and strata within a society.
		Proponents of structural-functional analysis suggest that since social stratification exists in most state societies, a hierarchy must therefore be beneficial in helping to stabilize their existence.
		Though often considered incredible, Anthropologists have confirmed that social stratification is not universal as once thought.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_stratification (725 words)

	Social structure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One example of social structure is the idea of "social stratification," which refers to the idea that society is separated into different strata, according to social distinctions such as a race, class and gender.
		The notion of social structure is intimately related to a variety of central topics in social science, including the relation of structure and agency.
		social structure is seen as comprising the relationships themselves, understood as patterns of causal interconnection and interdependence among agents and their actions, as well as the positions that they occupy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_structure (965 words)

	SOC 4383: Social Stratification
		The word "stratification" refers to the act of organizing (or putting) something into layers, but when sociologists use the term, they're referring to a system of social and economic relationships that shape our everyday experiences and life chances.
		Social stratification indicates that social inequality has become hardened, that the layers of human relationships we've inherited, modified, and maintained over time are institutionalized in some way.
		Social inequality is the condition where people have unequal access to valued resources and positions in a society, but social stratification suggests that that this system is organized by the institutions we establish, alter, and preserve.
	home.snu.edu /dept/General/HESPER~1/SOC_4383 (1021 words)

	SOCIAL CLASS, Russ Long's Lecture Notes
		Social class affects one's life chances across a broad spectrum of social phenomenon from health care, to educational attainment, to participation in the political process, to contact with the criminal justice system.
		Social stratification refers to the division of a society into layers (or strata) whose occupants have unequal access to social opportunities and rewards.
		In a stratified society, inequality is part of the social structure and passes from one generation to the next.
	www.delmar.edu /socsci/rlong/intro/class.htm (3620 words)

	UCLA Soc. 157, Social Stratification
		Topic: Social stratification concerns the unequal distribution of things which are scarce but widely desired, and the process of status attainment or social mobility whereby some persons or groups come to receive more of these scarce things than are received by others.
		Central to social stratification are such quantitative resources as wealth, income, education, and prestige.
		Stratification studies make use of such statistical tools as contingency tables, correlation coefficients and regression equations, in order to describe and explain how some get more, and others get less, of those scarce but desired resources.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /soc/faculty/mcfarland/soc157 (1210 words)

	Social Stratification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stratification can be defined various ways, but most commonly refers to institutionalized inequalities in power, wealth, and status between categories of persons within a single social system (e.g., classes, castes, ethnic groups)
		For example, only with stratification do we find the socioeconomic integration of large regions embracing millions of people; this shift from local resource utilization and self-sufficiency to production for regional markets seems to be associated with increased resource depletion and ecological instability (an issue we return to later in the course)
		Older theories (popular in 19th century) viewed social stratification as a manifestation of the general "progress" and increase in complexity characteristic of sociocultural evolution
	courses.washington.edu /anth457/stratif.htm (2198 words)

	SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
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		Links to sites of relevance to stratification, social class and inequality will be added as we proceed through the semester.
		Social Mobility and social attainment; Presentations from (B) ch 3;11.
	hss.fullerton.edu /sociology/orleans/436.htm (1305 words)

	Social Class
		Here, social differentiation is stressed by the "caste" that each individual is born into e.g.
		Clearly, in most modern industrial societies, including Britain, our system of social stratification is much more fluid - that is, we experience a good deal of "social mobility" - people, through generations or perhaps in their own life time, moving up or down the social scale.
		There is no generally agreed definition of social class, but most people agree that social differentiation exists.
	www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk /curric/soc/class/class.htm (222 words)

	Sociology: Social Stratification
		PURPOSE: This course is designed to analyze the major dimensions of social stratifications--class, status, and power--and to evaluate the impact of inequality on the institutions and individuals in society.
		Define the term "social stratification" and explain why the study of inequality is important.
		Beeghley, Leonard, The Structure of Social Stratification in the U.S. 3rd Ed.
	www.lcsc.edu /socialsciences/Syllabi/SO325syllabus.htm (1347 words)

	Graduate, Sociology Dept., WCAS
		Social organization consists of the study of enduring and widespread patterns of social relations and practices.
		Organizations play a key role in stratification, social change, and collective behavior, and are themselves shaped by larger sociological and historical processes.
		The Law and Social Sciences Program is open to a small number of students who intend to pursue an academic career and whose teaching and research will be enriched by both the JD and PhD degrees.
	www.cas.northwestern.edu /sociology/graduate/index.html (849 words)

	SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
		Macrosociologically, a social structure can be defined as the multidimensional space of social position among which a population is distributed and which reflect and affect people's role relations and social associations.
		Similarly, concerning social prestige, occupational position is useful in that many occupational pursuits (notably those involving physical labor) are incompatible with the ''honor'' of belonging to the higher prestige strata.
		Social science in constructing the social world takes note of the fact that agents are the subject of acts of construction of the social world.
	ssr1.uchicago.edu /PRELIMS/Strat/stmisc1.html (12996 words)

	Social Stratification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Social Stratification - course outline and requirements by Robert E. Wood, Department of Sociology at Rutgers University including syllabus and a virtual tour of social inequality resources on the web.
		Social Stratification Prelimary Summaries 1997-1998 - summaries of scholarly articles from University of Chicago.
		Social Policy Research Centre - University of New South Wales - the Social Welfare Research Centre was established in January 1980 on the basis of a five-year Agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the University of New South Wales.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/socstrat.htm (1281 words)

	SIDOS - Social Stratification
		Nevertheless, the ILO has produced the international standard classification of occupations (ISCO-88), a hierarchical scale based on occupations as the defining unit of social stratification, which serves as a base for international comparison of social structure.
		International Stratification Schemes: Various standardized scales and classification schemas have been developed in order to explore social stratification, as well as their causes and consequences.
		We at SIDOS are aware of the complexities, possibilities, and difficulties posed by the different classification and stratification schemes and are therefore subscribing to a pluralistic perspective.
	www.sidos.ch /method/socialposition.asp (292 words)

	Targeting Social Stratification
		Visualizing quantitative social information – which I will hereafter refer to as “Visual Displays“ – poses the same basic challenge that face analysts who are working with qualitative materials: subordinating the aesthetic and affective dimensions of an image to the concepts and ideas which can be extracted from it by interpretation and analysis.
		What needs to be done, however, is for social scientists to think visually, designing displays that expand the explanatory power of our abiding concerns and traditional analytic techniques.
		A social science that relies only on the analysis of qualitative data will never be able to understand human society.
	cs.wheatonma.edu /mgousie/social_strat/targetIndex.html (1979 words)

	Equality, Egalitarianism and Social Stratification in Satanism
		A commitment to equality [including economic and social equality] is in many respects the defining feature of socialist ideology, equality being the political value that most clearly distinguishes socialism from its rivals, notably liberalism and conservatism.
		Socialism, in its various forms, is far removed from Satanism in terms of its ideology on economic or social equality as will be clear from the section above; people are not equal.
		Conservatism sounds enticing with its strong insistence on a social hierarchy, which sounds like the same as Satanic "stratification" where "water finds its own level", but in conservatism this is not what it seems, which I'll explain after confirming the Liberal position.
	www.dpjs.co.uk /equality.html (1311 words)

	SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
		Social closure is the process by which social collectivities seek to maximize rewards by restricting access to resources and opportunities to a limited circle of eligibles.
		social strat systems function to provide the elite with the political power necessary to procure acceptance and dominance of an ideology which rationalizes the status quo, whatever it may be, as logical, natural, and morally right.
		To the extent that inequalities in social rewards cannot be made fully acceptable to the less privileged in a society, social strat systems function to encourage hostility, suspicion, and distrust among the various segments of a society and thus to limit the possibilities of extensive social integration.
	www.spc.uchicago.edu /ssr1/PRELIMS/Strat/stmisc2.html (11010 words)

	Waller - Social Stratification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An Overview of Social Stratification: An excellent and thorough discussion and set of links regarding the question of why wealth, power, and status are differentially distributed within various societies as they are.
		Economic Stratification: Another introduction to this important area of sociology, this one in the form of a simple outline.
		Sociological observations on social stratification: This long page of text provides a number of excerpts and summaries from academic works analyzing different aspects of social inequality (link will first take you to the "functionalist" interpretation of K. Davis & W. Moore).
	faculty.tcc.fl.edu /hss/wallert/sswke.html (230 words)

	Social Stratification Fall 2002
		Theories of social inequality will be examined to assess their relevance for understanding the intensification of social inequality in the United States and elsewhere, taking into account globalization and the global dimensions of social stratification.
		Social stratification is not just a sociological concept; it is the reality that shapes everyone's life and the paramount characteristic of today's world.
		define social class and social stratification and describe some of the complex relationship between these different kinds of inequality.
	www.colorado.edu /Sociology/gimenez/courses/403503.html (1186 words)

	Social classes
		Social class is one of the most hotly contested categories in the study of society (compare race).
		A child born as son of the king or high official would have had radically different expectations for life to those of the daughter of a farmer, or the son of a barber.
		The social differences between the different groups are expressed in various ways but are always very clearly visible, and important for the social identification of the individual.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /social/index.html (1105 words)

	Social Stratification
		At the core of the social stratification area is a concern with all types and levels of social inequality.
		Faculty within this area are actively engaged in research and teaching on structural aspects of social inequality related to race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and gender in U.S. institutions.
		WSU graduate student training in social stratification reflects this wide range of faculty interest and students are encouraged to take specialized seminars on gender, education, and labor markets.
	libarts.wsu.edu /soc/Areas/Stratification.htm (133 words)

	Social Stratification
		The Buddhist approach is to understand the basis of this ignorance and realize the futility of social stratification in human society.
		In such a division there is logical explanation and a moral or ethical base where, as in social stratifications based on caste, class or ethnicity one cannot find either an ethical or a logical explanatory process.
		Political, social, cultural, economic as well as psychological factors promote ignorance, and thus means of exploitation of individuals or groups by other individuals or groups.
	www.purifymind.com /SocialStra.htm (4277 words)

	An Overview of Social Inequality
		These are the criteria by which the social worthiness of individuals are judged and discriminations made, such as the classifications of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, age and generation.
		For a number of social scientists, its shrinkage in recent decades in the United States is a cause for concern.
		Television viewing, for instance, which decreases with social class, supposedly leads individuals to view themselves as being relatively powerless and apolitical, oblivious of the real forces shaping their lives (filled, instead, with extensive trivia and factoids), escapist, and consumers of whatever capitalism has to peddle.
	www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/strat.html (3642 words)

	Social Stratification Course Website
		This course focuses on one type of stratification in particular: social class.
		It does so in the belief that in American society we have become conditioned to see other forms of inequality (race, gender, age) much more readily than class stratification, even when apparent differences between racial, gender or age groups may in fact be explained by their link to social class.
		Social class is by no means the only determinant of social life and life chances, but it is a goal of this course to "see" class and its significance where before it may have been invisible.
	camden-www.rutgers.edu /~wood/332syl.html (872 words)

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