Social Stratification from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

Social Stratification
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Social Stratification
Social stratification entails categorizing society into groups based on socioeconomic factors. The people in society with similar socioeconomic status group themselves, giving rise to three social classes. These classes include the lower class, the upper class, and the middle class. These classes are formed when people group themselves using socioeconomic factors such as wealth, race, gender, the occupation of the people, social status, income, and many others. The symbolic interactionist perspective of social stratification analyzes stratification at the grassroots level. This means that the perspective examines how people's social position in society affects how they behave while interacting. In many scenarios, people's interactions a...