2. SOCIAL CLASS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRATIFICATION
Submitted to :-Wasif Ali Waseer Submitted by:- javeria zakir Hina siddiqui

3. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
is defined as a system by which society ranks
categories of people in a hierarchy.
Social stratification is a characteristic of society - not just due to individual differences
Social stratification persists over generations
Social Stratification is patterned social inequality
Social Inequality is a Structured and systematic phenomenon that affects people in various social classes throughout their lives.
Because of this patterned inequality, social stratification affects people’s life chances

4. SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS CONSISTS OF:- Education Wealth
Assets such as real estate and jewels, and
Income
Occupational prestige :- blue and white collars

5. Four Basic Principles of Social Stratification
It is a characteristic of society, not simply a reflection of individual differences.
It persists over generations.
It is universal but variable.
It involves not just inequality but beliefs.

6. The Great Social transformation and Social Class
Traditional hunting and gathering societies had little stratification
Horticultural and agrarian societies have highly developed systems in which a small elite dominates the masses of peasant laborers. Although there is stratification, there is virtually no socioeconomic mobility.
With industrialization, the rigidity of class lessens, and there is social mobility, especially within the large middle class, and from the lower into the middle classes.

7. Social Class
Social class - a large group of people who rank closely to one another in wealth, power, and prestige
These elements separate people into different lifestyles.
Social class provides people with different chances, and different ways of viewing the world.

8. Contd.
Upper class – the elite with great wealth who own the “means of production”, or who otherwise dominate the economic system
Lower upper class – recently ascended to the upper class, but do not have the established pedigree; nouveau riche
Middle class – professionals with high paying jobs in respected occupations (upper-middle class), and the skilled who work in moderately compensated occupations, and who own few assets (lower-middle class).

10. Components of Social Class
Power - the ability to carry out your will despite resistance.
The power elite - those who make the big decisions in U.S. society.
Power lies in the hands of the few.
Prestige - respect or regard
Class ranking is persistent across cultures and time.
People display prestige through status symbols.

11. Characteristic of social class
A system of hierarchy of status.
A system of social ranking based primarily on economic position.
A system marked by unequal distribution of wealth and power.
A system more mobile than caste system.
A system in which status is achieved by one’s own efforts rather than ascribed, assigned or inherited

12. Marx perspective
Marx saw class divisions as the most important source of social conflict. Weber's analysis of class is similar to Marx's, but he discusses class in the context of social stratification more generally. Class is one dimension of the social structure. Social status, or "social honor," is another. Both are significant contributors of social difference.

13. Elites in Pakistani society
Pakistani Elites class have a lot of luxuries in their lives
They spend million on buying vehicles Land clothes first class travelling include private jet .
In Pakistan 40% people who living lavishlifes include our politician Malik Riaz and Nawaz Sharif etc.

14. Conclusion
In Pakistani society social stratification is become the matter of life and death in this materialistic world .Every body want power to compete each other and degrade each other by showing power. Poor become more poor ,and rich become rich.