Social stratification refers to the society's categorisation of its people into groups grounded on socio-economic factors like wealth, income, race, education, gender, occupation, social status, ethnicity, or deduced power. As similar, stratification is the similar position of persons within a social group, geographic region, order or social unit. The societies like India, social stratification is generally defined in terms of three social classes the upper class, the middle class and the lower class; in turn each class is then sub classified into the upper-stratum, middle-stratum, and lower-stratum. Also a social stratum can be formed upon the bases of association , clan, lineage, or estate or all four. The categorisation of people by social stratums occurs more easily in complex state - grounded, polycentric or feudal societies, the ultimate being grounded upon socio-profitable relations among classes of nobility classes of peasants. Whether social positio...