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In every society people differ on the basis of sex age cultural background economic status etc Thus human society is not homogeneous but heterogeneous Human beings apart from being differentiated based on natural criteria are also distinguished by their social and cultural background Women s work is different from men Peoples occupation differ from one another right from primitive society we have people occupied in food gathering fishing hunting etc In tribal society one clan differs from the other because of their association with a different totem Social Stratification is a societies categorization of people into socio economic strata based on their occupation and income wealth and social status or derived power both social political It is a relative positioning of people in a social group category position or region Thus we can say that society is divided into various layers from which we get the word strata In this classification of society the social strata is continuously changing and we find unequal distribution of goods and privileges in society
