This week in class we examined social stratification. We broke it down into several parts including race, class, and ethnicity. Race being the way someone is categorized in this stratification by biological traits, or physical characteristics. Class is stratification system based on achievement. Some people are born into it others work hard to earn their class and status. The final being the way we allocate people in this system of stratification based on their ancestry or culture. I think that social Stratification is a very essential part of society. We can see stratification present everywhere there are people as well as animals. Although social stratification is necessary there are downfalls, such as someone being deemed low class and poor just because they were born into a not as well off family as others. It can be very hard of sometimes impossible to move out of a class once there. Then there are the total opposites of that. People that are born into a high class family and can abuse their status using it to treat others like they don't matter and also not move out of their high ranking class, that is where social stratification becomes a problem.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/bieber-face-charges-alleged-fight-neighbor-article-1.1338250
Justin Bieber is a good representation of this. He can kind of be a turd sometimes and never really seems to be in trouble because of his high class.
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