Social stratification is a concept used by social scientists to describe social standing. Social stratification in sociology describes how societies categorize people based on wealth, income, race, education, and power. As a rule, society's layers, made up of people, are unevenly distributed in terms of resources. In the social structure of stratification, society views the people with more resources as being at the top.
1. Ogburn and Nimkeff: The process by which individuals and groups are ranked in a more or less enduring hierarchy of status is known as stratification.
2. Raymod and Murray: Social stratification is a horizontal division of society into higher and lower social units.
3. Melvin and Tumin: Social Stratification refer to the arrangement of any social group or society into a hierarchy of positions that are unequal with regard to power, property, social evaluation and psychic gratification.
4. Lundberg: A stratified society is one marked by inequality by differences among people that are evaluated by them as being lower and higher.
5. Williams: Social stratification is the ranking of individuals on a scale of superiority equality, according to some commonly accepted basis of evaluation