... think about life. If were born in Ethiopian you would be literate and you would expect the same from your children. You would not be surprised when children died young. Social Stratification is a system in which groups of people are divided into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige. It is a way of ranking large groups of people into a hierarchy ... according to their relative privileges. Every society stratifies its members. Some societies have greater inequality than others, but social stratification is universal. What determines social class? Marx argued th...

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... , underrated, as an undeserving, underclass lacking the proper work ethic. ( Holly Sklar, 1) According to the conflict theorist on social stratification, those in the upper level of a stratification structure hold a monopoly over societies desires and they use their monopoly to dominate others. For example, the US schools system that ... "The communist manifesto" and by Max Weber in his essay "Class, Status, and Party". Weber argued that there were three parts to social stratification: class, status, and power. He stated that class was relative to how to how much money a person had and h...

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