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essence of sociology and the study of society - inequality, socially structured
inequality. Inequality arising from the power and control of resources by certain
individuals, groups, and social classes in
society. Social stratification in historical societies is never - has never been identical
with the system of objective functional differentiation or social contribution. In other
words, some in society pay less and get more while others pay more and get less.
"Them that has, gets," is the case in American society, for example. Social
stratification is then, generally, the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, social
castes, and social strata in a society. In Marxian
theory, social stratification is explained primarily in economic terms. The distribution
of resources, wealth, power, prestige, and ideologies are regarded as "having their
roots" in the relationship of the differing social classes to the means of production and distribution.
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