What Is Social Stratification?

Social stratification is the separation of huge numbers of people into strata according to their relative power, property, and prestige. It affects to both nations and to people within a nation, society, or other group. Although they may argue as to which structure of social stratification they employ, all societies stratify their members. Bovee, Thill, and Tumin talk about social stratification in some way in their papers, which will be addressed below.
Melvin Tumin recognized three problems with the functionalist view: First, how does one determine which positions are more important than others? Second, to what degree are societies really meritocracies? Third, if social stratification is so functional, why is it dysfunctional for so many