Stratification is used to describe structured social inequality or, more specically, systematic inequalities among groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processes and relationships (Conley 2013). In order words, it is the social classification that we have of people; the levels in which we arrange our social worlds. In the United States, we see stratification in our social class system, where we have upper, middle, and low class people. With upper class people being people like Bill Gates, middle class being those that lives comfortably and lower class going from those people that struggles to get by daily to those who are so poor they live in shelters and the streets. America is suppose to be the land
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We have countries like the United States, who seems rich economically, who is called " the land of opportunities" while there are countries like Haiti, that people calls " the poorest country of the western atmosphere". Furthermore, we have stratification without different societies around the world.Not all countries are the same, there are levels and categories to society globally. Sociologists, being the scientist that thrives to understand, observe and analyze society need to take interest in stratification because it is at the heart of our society …show more content…
She realized that she could not even while she was working full time. She mentioned how she was still $100 dollars behind in her trailer rent, and that's not because she couldn't work or find a job but because those jobs could not meet her needs. A lot of people are in the same boat as what she experiences during her experiment, and the upper and middle class don't often see the struggle that the lower class have to deal with in order to get by daily. In an equal world, those waitress, house keeper, cashier who serves others daily would be able to be as well off as those they served but instead they can barely make by while the same places they work at, is own by someone or a group of people who has way so much, their children and grandchildren will be well
We have countries like the United States, who seems rich economically, who is called " the land of opportunities" while there are countries like Haiti, that people calls " the poorest country of the western atmosphere". Furthermore, we have stratification without different societies around the world.Not all countries are the same, there are levels and categories to society globally. Sociologists, being the scientist that thrives to understand, observe and analyze society need to take interest in stratification because it is at the heart of our society …show more content…
She realized that she could not even while she was working full time. She mentioned how she was still $100 dollars behind in her trailer rent, and that's not because she couldn't work or find a job but because those jobs could not meet her needs. A lot of people are in the same boat as what she experiences during her experiment, and the upper and middle class don't often see the struggle that the lower class have to deal with in order to get by daily. In an equal world, those waitress, house keeper, cashier who serves others daily would be able to be as well off as those they served but instead they can barely make by while the same places they work at, is own by someone or a group of people who has way so much, their children and grandchildren will be well