caste & class system

5. Social stratification

6. Definition
Ogburn and Nimkoff – “The process by which individuals and groups
are ranked in a more or less enduring hierarchy of status known as
stratification”.
William, “ Social stratification as the ranking of individuals on a scale of
superiority-equality, according to some commonly accepted basis of
valuation.”

7. Kart B Mayer-
“ Social stratification is a system of differentiation which includes a
hierarchy of social positions whose occupants are treated as superior,
equal or inferior relative to one another in socially important respects.”

8. Types of social stratification
 it can be divided into
 Caste System – social
 Class system – economic
 Race – hereditary