social stratification

1. 1.

   the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group

   Synonymsstratification

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Questions about social stratification

What does social stratification mean?

social stratification means "the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group".

What is another word for social stratification?

Close synonyms include stratification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is social stratification a common word?

social stratification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.