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Social Stratification — lesson overview
Structured inequality
Social stratification concerns patterned inequalities in access to valued resources, status, opportunities and power.
Class, caste, gender and other social relations can interact rather than operating as isolated explanations.
An individual exception does not by itself disprove a wider structural pattern; both levels require evidence.
Status and mobility
Ascribed status is assigned through birth or other circumstances outside immediate individual choice; achieved status is associated with accomplishment or action.
Social mobility concerns changes in social position and can be intergenerational or within a person’s lifetime.
Formal permission to enter an institution does not guarantee equal practical access if resources, networks or discrimination create barriers.
Mechanisms and change
Education, property, labour markets and political institutions can reproduce inequality or provide opportunities to challenge it.
Legal equality and social outcomes are related but different measures; study both formal protections and actual participation.
Avoid presenting inequality as a natural consequence of group identity rather than examining the institutions and practices that generate it.
