This essay will define social stratification while comparing the stratification of the society in India to our society in the United States. Social stratification typically did not existent in early food foraging societies. But as subsistence patterns moved to sedentary means of food production, social stratification arose separating the people into social classes. This happened slightly at first, but became more noticeable as technology advanced and societies grew bigger. Social Stratification is the way a society categories people into a socioeconomic strata based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power. These strata types of groups are not all treated with equally, which can limit a group’s ability to get basic needed resources for survival. A
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In the Hindu system, people are born into particular class depending on the class their parents were in, while African Americans were born into society that was geared towards white supremacy, they were seen as less then human and had terrible leaving and hard employment opportunities, similar to the roles of the people in the Harijan group. In contrast, within the Hindu caste system, “social mobility is almost nonexistent for an individual, however with enough manipulation and persistence an entire group can move up in the hierarchy if they can convince enough people to believe their claims”. After the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, stratification between white and black American’s still continued across the country. It took a century from the abolishment of slavery for segregation to be made illegal in the United States, and although it was made illegal in 1964 just as the Hindu’s caste system was made illegal in 1950, it is still practiced in some parts of the country
In the Hindu system, people are born into particular class depending on the class their parents were in, while African Americans were born into society that was geared towards white supremacy, they were seen as less then human and had terrible leaving and hard employment opportunities, similar to the roles of the people in the Harijan group. In contrast, within the Hindu caste system, “social mobility is almost nonexistent for an individual, however with enough manipulation and persistence an entire group can move up in the hierarchy if they can convince enough people to believe their claims”. After the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, stratification between white and black American’s still continued across the country. It took a century from the abolishment of slavery for segregation to be made illegal in the United States, and although it was made illegal in 1964 just as the Hindu’s caste system was made illegal in 1950, it is still practiced in some parts of the country