what are the different social variables or areas/categories of stratification?
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Three important social variables include gender, race, and ethnicity, which, at the least, have an intervening effect on social status and stratification in most places throughout the world.
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['Political and strategic.', 'Demographic.', 'Economic.', 'Geographic and technical.', 'Cultural and ideological.']
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['Social stratification.', 'Economic issues.', 'Social disorganization.', 'Public health.', 'Age and the life course.', 'Social inequality.', 'Education and public schools.', 'Work and occupations.']
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Measures of three central theoretical elements in Shaw and McKay's social disorganization perspective (poverty, residential mobility, and racial heterogeneity) and variables from the subculture of violence, social control, and opportunity perspectives are included in this research.
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['Free and unfree: ... ', 'Class: ... ', 'Caste: ... ', 'Estate and Status: ... ', 'Occupation and Income: ... ', 'Race and Ethnicity: ... ', 'Ruling Class: ... ', 'Administrative Position:']
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Some societies are more open in this regard, while some are more closed. The major systems of stratification are slavery, estate systems, caste systems, and class systems. Some Western European nations are not classless but still have much less economic inequality than class societies such as the United States.
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Social stratification means division of society into different strata or layers. It involves a hierarchy of social groups. Members of a particular layer have a common identity. They have a similar life style. ... The Indian Caste system provides an example of stratification system.
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The physical variables included self-rated health, age, sex, and race. The psychological variables included three measures of self concept: actual, appearance, and ideal; and the social variables included education, occupation, and religious motivation.
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['Wealth and income - This is the most common basis of stratification.', 'Social class.', 'Ethnicity.', 'Gender.', 'Political status.', 'Religion (e.g. the caste system in India)']
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['A system of hierarchy of status. ... ', 'A system of social ranking based primarily on economic position.', 'A system marked by unequal distribution of wealth and power.', 'A system more mobile than caste system.']
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In modern Western societies, stratification is often broadly classified into three major divisions of social class: upper class, middle class, and lower class. Each of these classes can be further subdivided into smaller classes (e.g. "upper middle").
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The social classes are the most pervasive and powerful in their influence. However, ethnic subgroups (defined in terms of religion, race, or nationality background) are also effective, more so at the lower-working-class level than at the upper-middle-class level.
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Systems of stratification vary in their degree of vertical social mobility. Some societies are more open in this regard, while some are more closed. The major systems of stratification are slavery, estate systems, caste systems, and class systems.
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Examples of categorical variables are race, sex, age group, and educational level. While the latter two variables may also be considered in a numerical manner by using exact values for age and highest grade completed, it is often more informative to categorize such variables into a relatively small number of groups.
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Social stratification can be examined from different sociological perspectives—functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. The functionalist perspective states that systems exist in society for good reasons. ... Symbolic interactionists examine stratification from a micro-level perspective.
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['Probability sampling.', 'Questionnaires.', 'Rating scales.', 'Census.']
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To recall, horizontal social structure refers to the social relationships and the social and physical characteristics of communities to which individuals belong, while vertical social structure, more commonly called social inequality, refers to ways in which a society or group ranks people in a hierarchy.