Social Stratification And Social Class Inequalities

All of the topics that are in the textbook is significantly important. However, some of the issues that I am mostly concerns about are social stratification and social class inequalities. In this chapter, I was able to see a broad view of U.S social structure and inequalities, both within our culture and our institutions. Our modern society is stratified into social classes, which is based on income, wealth, educational attainment, occupation, and social networks. Sociologists posited that there are six social classes in America. It includes the upper-class, the lower-upper class, upper-middle class, lower-middle class, the working class, and the underclass. However, class system constitutes a set of social inequalities and that it establishes a place for the exercise of power. Anderson, Taylor, and Logio (2015), stated that “Class determines the access different people have to these resources and puts groups in different positions of privilege and disadvantage” (p.174). The caste system may not be determined by the political and economic privileges, but the system allows the elites do monopolize exercise power similar …show more content…
Discriminatory housing policies, tax codes, and so forth have disadvantaged Black Americans, resulting in the differing assets Whites and Blacks in general hold now” (p.180-181). I found this fact to be disturbing, but it is the hard truth. Some people believe that discriminatory policies have ended, but it continues in our society. Race significantly influences the pattern of wealth distribution in the United States. In other words, class position is manifested differently depending on one’s race, as well as one’s gender. Women today is still fighting for equal pay. They only receive 77 percent of men’s income. This is a form of discriminatory and inequality that continues in many