A Global Perspective by Joan Ferrante

Chapter 8 of Ferrante's Sociology: a Global Perspective, focuses on the idea of social stratification (division of people into ranked social classes). While the chapter discusses different stratification systems and how they affect these social classes have on people's lives, article19, in Sociological Footprints by Leonard Cargan and Jeanne Ballantine discuss the breakdown of class structure, as well as the consequences of it.
Social stratification is defined in the text as the system of classifying people into categories based on their social worth. The categories in which any given per…