This relationship between inequality and stratification is illustrated by various working definitions of inequality. Others focus on the interactions between societal factors and inequality. Various forms of social inequality infiltrate our environment. Familiar types of social inequality include income, race, and gender inequality. We are often habituated to stratification and accordingly do not acknowledge its presence.
Social stratification develops in a three-step process.
Lastly, these groups must then face unequal opportunities to gain property, prestige, and power. All forms of social inequality share this common formula as an origin. The consequences of social stratification are evident in the troubles of our time. The Middle East suffers today from religious stratification that originated centuries ago. Race relations in the United States continue to struggle with the effects of a racial inequality that originated in the colonial period.