What is social stratification?
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Social stratification is a sociological term for the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, castes, and strata within a society. While these hierarchies are not universal to all societies, they are the norm among state-level cultures (as distinguished from hunter-gatherers or other social arrangements).\n\nSocial stratification is regarded quite differently by the principal perspectives of sociology. Proponents of structural-functional analysis suggest that since social stratification exists in all societies, a hierarchy must therefore be beneficial in helping to stabilize their existence. Conflict theorists consider the inaccessibility of resources and lack of social mobility in many stratified societies. They conclude, often working from the theories of Karl Marx, that stratification means that working class people are not likely to advance socioeconomically, while the wealthy may continue to exploit the proletariat generation after generation. "The advancement in technology have change the structure of mobility completely" (Francois Adley). However, some conflict theorists, mainly Weber and his followers also critique Marx's view and point out at that social stratification is not purely based on economic inequalities but is equally shaped by status and power differentials. They proceed to examine the basis and structure of stratification in society along all the three axes.
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I don't think you need an underclass for society to operate. A country like Sweden for example provides a reasonable level of education for all it's citizens. They as a result don't have much of an underclass and they are very prosperous.\n\nIt's obvious there are people with a vested interest in maintaining and underclass to provide cheap labor.\n\nThey have a lot of people fooled.
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The natives didn't necessarily have social classes.  There was a division of labor, and people did what they were good at or born to do, but everyone contributed to the society.  There were priests or shamans or medicine men, a number of chiefs-war chiefs as one example, warriors, hunters, and the women.  No one was really higher than anyone else.
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Basically, a community where everyone works together to create a perfect society. The meaning is up to you.
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I'm not going to give you an essay either. Do your own homework.\n\nNormally those with money have more social status. People like Ministers, Teachers, Doctors, often have greater social status than their income would predict as they are trusted professions.
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family is the basic unit of society. Unless this all-important building block is healthy and unified, society itself cannot be healthy and unified. Monogamous marriage stands at the foundation of family life.\nmarriage is "a fortress for well-being and salvation."
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Urbanization- by my definition, is the grouping of a people in an underprivileged environment to inhibit the mental financial progression of a group of people.  Urbanization restricts the upward mobility of a group of people, primarily based on race, class, or both, by the government not providing adequate education, and financial resources to move out of an impoverished area.  The government masks disenfranchisement by offering free to low-cost health care, low-income housing, and public transportation, which "fools" some of the people in disenfranchised areas that they should settle for just surviving in America, not living the American dream.
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The book concerns the structure of society.\n\nSee the Wikipedia article below.
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The falling of many Middle Class People to being below the Poverty level, without changing anything in their lives has always amazed me.  Of course the amount of people in your family has to do with the level of the Poverty being set.  Think about the fact that many people are actually living the same life as they always have, same job, same home, same family and have fallen under the poverty level and not known about it. I think that would be an interesting place to start.  I believe that we think of poverty as having nothing and the government sets levels that makes many who live decent lives fall under poverty levels.  By this it is like the calling of Beverly Hills as an economically disadvantaged city because of the lack of jobs per capita in that city.  Well it is that way because the land is mainly used for individual residences and that is the way they want it, yet under government guidelines it falls into that category.  What I am saying is that you need to start with placing an actual definition of poverty and then look at the people who don't fit the category and then question why?
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Grouping people is usually done for statistical purposes, say for example, people who have high speed internet connections. You would place people in this group based soley on the knowledge that they have high speed internet. Stereotyping is when you place people in a group without real knowledge about them, but rather, on the inference that they belong there. Stereotyping is also usually done out of ignorance, and is usually, but not always, done in a negative frame of mind. For example, white people can't dance, black guys can play basketball, etc.
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Sociology is the study of society and human social action, and includes the examination of the origins, institutions, organization, and development of human life.\n\nIt is a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies, sometimes defined as the study of social interactions. It is a relatively new academic discipline
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A social "safety net" , such as welfare, is not socialism. Socialism is the ownership of all assets and wealth by the state.  welfare is more appropriatly described as a redistribution of wealth. The source of the wealth is taxation of other individuals, the state is only a middle man, not the source of the wealth.
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Economic inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income. The term typically refers to inequality among individuals and groups within a nation or inequality among nations.
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Conforming to a social norm.
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basic things to look at with open and closed systems is does the system place the individual based on ascription (things you cannot change or that you were born into) or do they place individuals based on achievement. Ascription based stratification is a closed system whereas open systems follow more achievement based systems. Some examples of closed systems are caste and slavery systems of stratification. more primative socieites in addition to class and feudal socieites are by comparison more open. \n\nIts important to note that today most socieites are a mix of both ascribed and achievement stratification.
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Religionis a system of social coherence based on a common group of beliefs or attitudes concerning an object, person, unseen being, or system of thought considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine or highest truth, and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions, and rituals associated with such belief or system of thought. It is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system"[1], but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions.\n\nCASTE-Caste systems are traditional, hereditary systems of social stratification, such as clans, gentes, or the Indian caste system\n\nCustom-consists of established patterns of behaviour that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. Generally, customary law exists where\n\na certain legal practice is observed \nthe relevant actors consider it to be la
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The pattern of social classes in Hinduism is called the "caste system"