The five basic characteristics of social stratification are:

a) Ancient Stratification / The Antiquity of Social stratification

b) The Ubiquity of Stratification

c) The Social Patterning of Stratification

d) The Diversity of Form and Amount of Stratification

e) The Consequences of Stratification

The key determinants of social stratification are economic, social and political policies.

The lower classes have the least to gain from social stratification.

Social inequality reflects the social-conflict theorists ideas about social stratification.

n