Class stratification refers to the division of a society into different social classes based on factors like wealth, occupation, and education. This division creates a hierarchy where people in higher classes have more power, resources, and opportunities, while those in lower classes face disadvantages and barriers.
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In a country where the last hundred years of foreign rule have destroyed the concept of social equality and
intensified class stratification, where a foreign system of education has created a wide gulf between the educated class and the masses, the prevailing mood of the people is to recover their lost dignity and equality.
Atop this monument to
class stratification sits architect Anthony Royal (Jeremy Irons, «Race») and his wife Ann (Keeley Hawes, «The Bank Job»), lord and lady of the penthouse manor, complete with lackey Simmons (Dan Renton Skinner, «The Kennedys» TV series), roof garden, sheep and horse (no, really).
Lee brilliantly and wisely
dramatizes class stratification and social disintegration, deprivation and sustenance both physical and psychic, reflecting, with rare acuity, on the evolution of legends and how, in the most hellish of circumstances, we rediscover the solace of art.
Heather Passmore investigates aspects
of class stratification and cultural hierarchies by experimenting with different materials.
3:10), is implicit elsewhere in the Bible, though generally on a more communal basis as it is assumed that work is the duty of the «house,» or family unit.6 There is division of labor in the Bible and there is slavery, but little suggestion of
a class stratification condemning manual labor as inferior.
New York Times Magazine editor Tough profiles an ambitious effort to simultaneously address the seemingly eternal societal problems of poverty,
class stratification, educational underachievement and racial discrimination.
For hundreds of years, Gould argues, questionable measurements of human intelligence, like skull size or IQ, have been used to justify racism, sexism, and
class stratification.
The United States has a long history of using intelligence tests to support white supremacy and
class stratification.
At once humorous, political, and difficult (especially for those who see private property as an inalienable human right), McGee's art underscores the complexities of life in early 21st century America, a country in the midst of wars, a financial crisis, unemployment,
class stratification, and the ever - cheerful exhortation to keep consuming.