Societies are often categorized into systems of stratification according to the degrees of inequality and vertical social mobility that characterize them. Conflict theory says stratification exists because of discrimination against, and blocked opportunities for, the have-nots of society.

Sociologists use the term social stratification to describe the system of social standing. Social stratification refers to a society’s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power.

Weber proposes that there are three primary components to social stratification: property, prestige, and power. Property refers to one’s material possessions and subsequent life chances. Prestige refers to the reputation or esteem associated with one’s social position.

Six policies to reduce economic inequality

1. Increase the minimum wage.
2. Expand the Earned Income Tax.
3. Build assets for working families.
4. Invest in education.
5. Make the tax code more progressive.
6. End residential segregation.

Social stratification causes social disparity and many problems as it is an unjust system with monopoly of power and wealth in a particular group. It creates emotional stress and depression for the people belonging to lower social stratum as they have unequal access to wealth, power and prestige.

Social stratification assigns people to socioeconomic strata based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power. Equality of condition is the situation in which everyone in a society has a similar level of wealth, status, and power.

The consequences of gender stratification are that women often earn less money than men for comparable jobs; they often enter the workforce at jobs that pay less and that are lower on the managerial ladder; and they are often denied access to jobs with supervisory, decision-making, and other power.

Stratification is systematic and is based on identifiable social processes through which people are sorted into categories such as caste, class, race and gender. Social inequality is a condition in which members of a society have different amount of wealth, prestige and power.

Elementary School Teacher: Primary school teachers are generally considered lower-middle class. They usually hold college degrees, but often do not hold graduate degrees; they make comfortable incomes, but have low accumulated wealth; their work is largely self-directed, but is not high status.

The class teacher is the one teacher among the group of teachers involved with a class who has the main responsibility when it comes to monitoring and supporting the subject-specific and social development of the students. Commonly, it is the Danish teacher who also assumes the role of class teacher for a class.