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Social Classes and Stratification in the United States

Kelcee Wassell

SOC 101

Professor Newhart

September 12, 2017

SUMMARY OF THE ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION FOR TEXAS (OKLAHOMA)

Stratification and inequalities based on race, gender, age, social class

Social stratification is a process of separation in the types of social groups as they appear in society depending on the financial capacity and the standards of living of the people in the society. For example the society of Texas is seen to have three types of classes from the data findings from the fact finder shown of the demography of the United States of America. In the analysis of the demography of the population of Texas the total number of people amount to almost 22000 as seen in the table above. Thus, the population according to age and gender is highlighted in the table shows that most of the people in this area are adults.

However the analysis of the people according to race shows that Texas country consist of white Americans as the largest racial group that dominates the society. Nevertheless there other countries that are living within the county including the black Americans, American Indians, Asians, Korea, japan, Chinese among other tribes. However the analysis of the family according to economic achievement characterizes each group of people according to their difference in the level of income.

Those that have high income are classified in the upper social class. This is because they are able to afford higher more services and to purchase more goods which have higher. Moreover they are able to attend better schools and expensive learning institutions. Due to these they identify themselves separately as from other people and they do not associate with people of lower class than theirs. Similarly those who can afford average income are classified as middle class. These people can afford to cater for the general needs to of the family but they are not able to afford luxurious life such as expensive education, expensive food or buy expensive houses and cars. The middle class is a majority class in Texas of Oklahoma seen in the table above. The last group belongs to the lower class. This group has the lowest living standard and they are hardly successful to provide the all the needs which are generally required for average survival of their families.

As a result they have low earning jobs which make them to live in the cheapest houses so that they may be able to save enough money for other expenses such as food and clothing. Thus social stratification in the United States of America is divided in to three groups as described above. The high earing rich people belong to the upper social class and they are separate themselves from other people by living in their own streets which has expensive houses and buildings. Middle class people live average houses which are in good condition but they are not expensive to contain more luxurious feature like those of the higher social class. Finally the lower class lives in the cheapest houses, the buy cheap clothes and also they buy cheap food so as to spend their small income economically to cater for other needs.

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