{"id":7228,"date":"2020-03-21T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2025-07-05T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:57:34","slug":"elements-of-social-stratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/elements-of-social-stratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements of Social Stratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Elements_of_Social_Stratification\"><\/span>Elements of Social Stratification<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relevant_for_Sociology_Optional_paper_I\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>(Relevant for Sociology Optional paper I)<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/elements-of-social-stratification\/#What_are_the_elements_of_Social_Stratification\" title=\"What are the elements of Social Stratification?\">What are the elements of Social Stratification?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/elements-of-social-stratification\/#How_Adequate_sanctions_including_rewards_and_punishment_exist_to_motivate_persons\" title=\"How Adequate sanctions including rewards and punishment exist to motivate persons?\">How Adequate sanctions including rewards and punishment exist to motivate persons?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-14.png 1080w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-14-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-14-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-14-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Untitled-design-14-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_elements_of_Social_Stratification\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>What are the elements of Social Stratification?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">All stratification systems have some common elements. These elements have been identified as differentiation, ranking, evaluation and rewarding. Here Tumin has been referred to discuss the elements of social stratification.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Status Differentiation:<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Status differentiation is the process by which social positions are determined and distinguished from one another by way Of associating a distinctive role, a set of rights and responsibilities such as father and mother. <strong>Status differentiation operates more effectively when:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Tasks are clearly defined.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Authority and responsibility are distinguished.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Mechanism for recruiting and training exists.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Adequate_sanctions_including_rewards_and_punishment_exist_to_motivate_persons\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>How Adequate sanctions including rewards and punishment exist to motivate persons?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Responsibilities, resources and rights are assigned to status not to particular individuals. For only by doing so societies can establish general and uniform rules or norms that will apply to many and diverse individuals who are to occupy the same status e.g. all the different women who will play the role of a parent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Differentiation is not independent process in itself. The most important criteria for understanding the process of differentiation is ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Ranking is done on the basis of:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Personal characteristics that people are thought to need if they are to learn and perform the roles effectively such as intelligence, aggressiveness and politeness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The skills and abilities that are believed necessary for adequate role performance such, as surgical, numerical or linguistic skills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">General qualities of the task e.g. difficulty, cleanliness, danger and so forth.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_Purpose_of_ranking_is_to_identify_the_right_person_for_the_right_position\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>What is the Purpose of ranking is to identify the right person for the right position?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Ranking non-valuative\u00a0i.e. jobs are rated as harder or easier, cleaner or dirtier, safer or more dangerous and people are judged slower, smarter or more skillful than others without implying that some are socially more important and others less because of these characteristic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Ranking is a selective process in the sense that only some statuses are selected for comparative ranking and of all criteria of ranking only some are actually used in ranking process e.g. the status of Father-Mother is not ranked.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong> Evaluation: <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Differentiation and ranking are further solidified by the evaluation process. Whereas the ranking procedure pivots about the question of more of or less of, the evaluation process centres in the question better and worse. Evaluation is both a personal and societal attribute.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">That is, individuals assign a relative worth, a degree of preference and a priority of desirability to everything. To the extent that evaluation is a learned quality, a consensus tends to develop within a culture individuals tend to share a common set of values. This value consensus is the societal dimension crucial to evaluation stratification.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span class=\"amp-wp-303d451\" data-amp-original-style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">To Read more topics like Elements of Social Stratification<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"amp-wp-303d451\" data-amp-original-style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">in Public Posts, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?amp=1\">www.triumphias.com\/blogs<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_more_blogs\"><\/span>Read more blogs:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"z8YDI0zuMJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/caste-conflicts-in-india\/\">Caste Conflicts in India | Sociology Optional Coaching | Vikash Ranjan Classes | Triumph IAS | UPSC Sociology Optional<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Caste Conflicts in India | Sociology Optional Coaching | Vikash Ranjan Classes | Triumph IAS | UPSC Sociology Optional&#8221; &#8212; TriumphIAS\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/caste-conflicts-in-india\/embed\/#?secret=xyHoWutTYm#?secret=z8YDI0zuMJ\" data-secret=\"z8YDI0zuMJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TUdSEbGF6H\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/violence-against-women-in-india\/\">Violence Against Women in India | Sociology Optional Coaching | Vikash Ranjan Classes | Triumph IAS | UPSC Sociology Optional<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Violence Against Women in India | Sociology Optional Coaching | Vikash Ranjan Classes | Triumph IAS | UPSC Sociology Optional&#8221; &#8212; TriumphIAS\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/violence-against-women-in-india\/embed\/#?secret=ZGN4IlN8BA#?secret=TUdSEbGF6H\" data-secret=\"TUdSEbGF6H\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elements of Social Stratification (Relevant for Sociology Optional paper I) What are the elements of Social Stratification? 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