This document discusses the effects of social stratification in education based on economic status, race, ethnicity, and gender. It notes that a student's economic status, whether poor or rich, can determine their ability to access higher education. It also explains how racism in schools can take the form of prejudice, discrimination, and policies that ignore or do not support diversity. Ethnic minorities may also be underrepresented in positions of power and subject to majority policies. Finally, it states that gender is a prevalent social characteristic used to make distinctions between individuals, and that on a global scale men have higher literacy rates while women are more prevalent in higher education in some countries.

2. EFFECTS OF SOCIAL
STRATIFICATION
IN EDUCATION

3. ECONOMIC

4. Income is the most common
variable used to describe
stratification and
associatedeconomic inequality in a
society

5. A student belong to a poor family
can’t afford to go a higher
institutions of learning.
A student belong to a rich family
can afford to go a higher
institutions of learning.

6. Race

7. Racism consists of
both prejudice and discrimination based in
social perceptions of observable biological
differences between students. It often
takes the form of social actions, practices
or beliefs, or political systems in which
different races are perceived to be ranked
as inherently superior or inferior to each
other, based on presumed shared
inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities.

8. Discriminatory policies and
practices that can exist in
schools:
• ignoring or not responding
to incidents or complaints of
racism
• not informing students,
parents and staff of their
rights in relation to racism

9. • having parent and
community organisations that
are not representative of the
diversity of the school
community

10. • not providing access
to interpreters or
translations for parents

11. • discouraging the
involvement of parents and
community members from
diverse cultural and
linguistic backgrounds in
school activities or decision
making processes

12. Ethnicity

13. Ethnic identification can include shared
cultural heritage such
as language and dialect, symbolic
systems, religion, mythology and cuisine.
As with race, ethnic categories of students
may be socially defined as
minority categories whose members are
under-represented in positions of social
power. As such, ethnic categories of
persons can be subject to the same types
of majority policies

14. Gender

15. Gender is one of the most
pervasive and prevalent social
characteristics which people use to
make social distinctions between
individuals. Gender distinctions are
found in economic-, kinship- and
caste-based stratification systems

17. The education system affecting
both men and women during and
after their educational
experiences.Men are more likely
to be literate on a global average,
although women are more
prevalent at higher education in
some countries.