 Social Inequality- is the pattern of

unequal access to social resources.

 It reflects innate differences between
individuals for example their varying
abilities and efforts.
 Social Stratification- is the arrangement
of people into hierarchy of positions that
define access to wealth, power, property
and psychological evaluation.
THREE COMPONENTS OF
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
 Social Class- is a category of people
who share the same style of life, life
chances, power and prestige.
THREE COMPONENTS OF
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
 Social Status- is the position of an
individual in society, and it could either
be ascribed or achieved.
 Ascribed- status that a person gets as a
result of the accident of birth, gender
and position like being born of a noble
parentage.
 Achieved- is the position that a person
acquires as a function of merit, efforts
and achievements.
THREE COMPONENTS OF
SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
 Social Role- is the dynamic aspect of social
status.
 It involves a cluster of norms that define the
behavior of a person occupying a certain
status in the group.
 Duties- are general conduct assigned to a
position
 Obligation- is the set of duties assigned to the
person that have to be carried out.
 Responsibility- is the particular task that the
person is accountable or answerable to do.
GENERAL FORMS OF SOCIAL
STRATIFICATION
 Closed Stratification- is a system of
classifying people into rigid and well-
defined social classes based on
ascribed traits.
 People are assigned at birth into a social
class to which they will stay for the rest
of their lives.
GENERAL FORMS OF SOCIAL
STRATIFICATION
 Open Stratification- assigns people to
different social classes on the basis of the
person’s efforts and achievements rather
than their ascribed traits.
 Positions of people in society can be the
result of personal choice and individual
competition.
 There are no social boundaries between
classes and people can freely interact with
one another but with some informal
restrictions.
 Social Mobility- is the movement of
people from one social position to other,
or from one social class to another.