Social Stratification in India and the United States

As the population continues to increase, governments all over the world have developed socially layered societies as a means of controlling their inhabitants. In these societies, "People's hierarchy is divided into social class ... and can not share the basic resources that support survival equally" (Haviland, 2008; 258). More specifically, the Indian Hindu Actor System and the United States Social Class System are two examples of social stratification designed to manage a large number of people in manageable social categories.

Social stratification is a system in which society ranks categories of people in the hierarchy. In the United States it is clear that a group has a higher status, power and wealth than other groups. These differences lead to social stratification. Social stratification is based on four main principles. Structural functionalists think that inequality in society plays an important role in the smooth functioning of society. Davis-Moore's paper points out that stratification of society has a beneficial effect on social activities. Davis and Moore believe that the most difficult tasks in any society are most necessary and that individuals need the highest remuneration and rewards to fully motivate them to fill them. Most people can do the work such as cutting and cleaning the toilet, but other work such as brain surgery is difficult, and the most talented people need to do the work.

Changes in social stratification reflect trends across the field as social stratification is the most binding and most concerned central issue in sociology. Founder of sociology including Weber believes that America is a very classless society with high mobility, unlike in Europe. But during the Great Depression, Robert and Helenlinde recorded a deep division between working in all areas of community life and commercial classes in his famous Middletown (1937) study. Lloyd Warner and colleagues at Harvard University applied anthropological methods to study the social life of modern society (1941) and found six social classes with different upper-level cultures: upper and upper upper part, upper middle part and Like the lower center, and upper and upper lower classes, C. Wright Mills proposed in 1956 "power elite" dominates Washington's national agenda including business, government and military.