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Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Stratification of class.

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  • Stratification and Mobility

Class stratification is the ranking of people into broad, economically based layers that differ in wealth, income, occupation and life chances. It is the characteristic form of inequality in industrial and market societies, where it largely replaced the estate and, formally at least, the caste principle.

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