Social Stratification

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23596124
AutoresHarold Kerbo, Harold R Kerbo (California Polytechnic State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Páginas1-4
Data de publicação2017-12-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118430873.est0761
OpenAlexW4243902780
ISBN9781118430873
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas6

Social stratification refers to a ranking of people or groups of people within a society. But the term was defined by the earliest sociologists as something more than the almost universal inequalities that exist in all but the least complex of societies. Social stratification refers to a system with predictable rules behind the ranking of individuals and groups which theories of social stratification are meant to uncover and understand. The existence of a system of social stratification also implies some form of legitimation of the ranking of people and the unequal distribution of valued goods, services, and prestige. Without belief systems justifying the inequality and unequal ranking it is unlikely a stratification system would remain stable over time. Beyond agreement on a definition of social stratification, however, the classical sociological theorists agreed on little else. From this classical period of sociology we have, in fact, a triple legacy of social stratification theories from the works of Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber.

Economics · Epistemology · Inequality · Legitimation · Political science · Positive economics · Prestige · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Stratification (seeds) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Social Policy and Reform Studies