1.
Summary :
Stratification is something that we occurs on
our everyday life. Whether it’s about work, social life, or economics,
stratification exist in various aspect. So what is stratification actually?
Based on the Wikipedia pages stratification refers to the hierarchical
arrangement of people in a society. One of the sociologist named Pitirim
Sorokin said that stratification is a differentiation between people and
putting them into various layers (in a hierarchical way). So we can conclude
that stratification is a rule that differentiate people and put them into a
diverse category.
There are a few ways to put people in a stratification level,
which is by their power, property, and prestige. Power refers to someone’s
power in the society (his/her ability to do something), property means that a
total of someone’s possession, and prestige means one’s position in a society. Though
maybe stratification have a good side of it, but it also has so many negative
side. One of the most visible is inequality. The form of stratification that
put people on a different type of society makes it unfair. The people who has
more power, property and prestige would be above of those who doesn’t in
society and it would make the people who don’t have it stay in a lower class
and most likely would be oppressed.
2.
What was interesting/what did you learn :
While I already understand that stratification and inequality
is something that hard to separate, I found out that in the consequence of
inequality my country percentage of population that living less than $2 per day
is quite high which is 41%-60%. But on the population living below the national
poverty line map my country is actually has a lower percentage which is 10%-20%.
I think this is because our country’s money value is not as high as the other
forward country and people can actually live with $2 a day even though it’s not
that much.
3.
Discussion Point :
I want to know whether is it possible to make a
stratification without an inequality? Or is it impossible to do?
I think it is practically impossible. The power of stratification in our lives, such as the quality of education divided by income level and the standard of living significantly differed. Not only income, but also fame and political power have influences that cannot be ignored. In this society, it is almost impossible for the absence of inequality and stratification to coexist.
ReplyDeleteI think it is kind hard to do so. Because stratification is a
ReplyDeletevertical classification system, those who are in the upper area will tend to think they are better than the other.