Similar words: ratification, gratification, self-gratification, notification, justification, certification, rectification, quantification. Meaning: [‚strætɪfɪ'keɪʃn] 
n. 1. the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata 2. the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group 3. forming or depositing in layers 4. a layered configuration 5. the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination.
n. 1. the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata 2. the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group 3. forming or depositing in layers 4. a layered configuration 5. the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination. 
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1. She was concerned about the stratification of American society.
2. The Prime Minister wants to reduce social stratification and make the country a classless society.
3. Stratification in the feudal system was based on landholding.
4. Second(Sentence dictionary), the political world is characterized by political stratification.
5. Too often, past social stratification forms an obstacle.
6. Social stratification still exists and the middle-classes still dominate business and industry - as well as the government.
7. Sedimentary rocks show stratification and form by settling of erosional debris and chemical precipitates.
8. Life chances A person's position in a stratification system may have important effects on many areas of life.
9. They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites.
10. This kind of amendment to traditional stratification analysis would still, of course, leave standing the major objections to it.
11. That stratification would occur as a necessary consequence of the alienation of labour.
12. They will therefore consider how stratification systems help to maintain order and stability in society.
13. Some problems in stratification theory and the theory of deviance are mentioned above.
14. By comparison, social class, the system of stratification in capitalist industrial society, provides an example of an open system.
15. Beliefs which state that systems of social stratification are based on biological inequalities can be seen as rationalizations for those systems.
16. They have questioned the view that stratification systems derive ultimately from shared values.
17. Parsons's argument suggests that stratification is an inevitable part of all human societies.
18. Despite this apparent stratification, certain groups of plants are very restricted in their range of pollinators.
19. That is, class stratification and musical language stratification can be correlated.
20. Individualism, capitalism, and social stratification increasingly were regarded as acceptable patterns by members of the Mormon hierarchy.
21. The Indian caste system is an example of social stratification.
22. Social divisions Finally, Tumin questions the view that social stratification functions to integrate the social system.
23. However, most sociologists would argue that systems of racial stratification have a social rather than a biological basis.
24. So far, criticism of functionalist theories has been concerned with the view that stratification is functional.
25. Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes.
26. Introduction 1.1 Attention to the privileged role of information specialists in organizational and stratification research is not new.
27. This chapter begins a detailed exploration of the issue of stratification, in particular stratification according to class.
28. Most of the views dealt with in the following sections have been influenced by Marxist or Weberian theories of stratification.
29. Blacks and certain other ethnic minority groups form the base of the stratification system.
30. Discussion Our evidence suggests that a new approach to social stratification is required to assess health inequalities in childhood.
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