Social Stratification and Class Formations Under Colonial Rule

Abstract

Social stratification means in the domain of sociology and how the concept had appeared sporadically in the writings of the philosophers, social as well as political thinkers through different periods of history. This paper is also introduces you about social inequality and natural inequality and helps you to draw the differences between them along with major dimensions of social stratification. Further we explain what hierarchy is and how it is intimately tagged with caste and class. Furthermore this unit describes how social stratification by nature relates to the unequal distribution of power, privilege and prestige in the society Social stratification generally refers to the socially ordered hierarchical positions of men in the human society. It is manmade. Right from antiquity to the present or in other words right from the dawn of human civilization i.e., starting from the simplest societies to the present day complex modern societies stratification is an inevitable phenomenon, and interestingly it is continuing through the ages. No human society is unstratified and hence it can be said that there is no society known to the mankind at different phases of history that does not make some distinction between individuals by ranking them in higher and lower positions in the society or societies where they live.