مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري

Abstract :

Stratification is a vital sociological reality in understanding the mechanisms of social structure and alteration. This study, which is aiming to develop an inquisitive rhetoric with regard to the modern contents of stratification and inequality problematique, introduces a descriptive analytical framework moving on the stratification theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber. It is a sociological phenomenon that there exists a certain stratification system in all societies beginning from the most primitive communities and even extending to the most sophisticated ones. Stratification has an unignorable relationship with social inequality. From this point of view, stratification can be defined as a formation process of structural inequalities through social groups in terms of reaching material or symbolic merits. Social classes which are the most distinctive form of stratification in modern societies, separate essentially from the whole forms of stratification in the history. In evaluating the class system which is being the current stratification of modern times, this class system’s crucial function for enabling the reproduction of the social-labor system and also its (new) function paving the way for the very deconstruction process of the social structure because of its specific dynamism should be both taken into account.