Abstract

The social stratification includes various aspects such as Castes, Class, Age, and Gender have a long history of being discriminated against, exploited, and placed at the bottom of caste society. Social stratification and inequality have been widely debated issue since long time. Earlier sociologists like Spencer believed that society developed through an evolutionary process and those who profited from natural selection-”survival of the fittest”-came out on top. The same rule applied between the people living in the societies in respect of caste, class, age and gender. Therefore, there is however, strong resistance among the higher castes just above that of the Scheduled Castes in Indian societies. This paper is based on the secondary data collected from the books, newspaper and journals to study social stratification related to caste, class, age and gender.