Every society has categories and classes that determine how people live. Social stratification is a term that describes the social standing system. Factors like race, money, power, and education form the social status that people see, which differs one group of people from others. Even though countries mostly do not understand the concept of Indian castes, everything came to the fact that this system is the world’s reality.
Social stratification creates a gap in understanding and connecting between different layers of society. I believe discrimination and social stratification are related and feed one another. Since discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of people based on their gender, ethnicity, age, or sexual orientation. People in America tend to believe that their success depends only on them. However, sociological studies show that “the structure of a society affects a person’s social inequalities” (Griffiths et al., 2015). Most of the time, parents pass their social roles to their sons and daughters.
One of the standard inequalities caused by social stratification is the resort countries like Jamaica, Turkey, Egypt, etc. People fly there to rest in a luxury hotel where, only several kilometers from there, people live impoverished lives. Most of the time, they even work in those hotels and provide rest for wealthier people. However, every country “struggles to support the lower classes” (Tonja et al., 2021). That demonstrates the problem of inequality and race because it implies the mindset that some nations are there to serve. To solve this problem, people could encourage resorts and hotels in their home countries to develop by resting there and investing their money. Another thing that could change that situation is for people in business to invest in other companies like sports or the sales market to develop and enrich these countries.
References
Conerly, T. R., Holmes, K. & Tamang, A. L. (2021). Introduction to sociology 3e. OpenStax.
Griffiths, H., Keirns, N., Strayer, E., Cody-Rydzewski, S., Scaramuzzo, G., Sadler, T., Vyain, S., Bry, J. & Jones, F. (2015). Introduction to sociology 2e. OpenStax.