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social stratification

society's categorization of its people into hierarchical groups based on socioeconomic factors
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Summary

social stratification is a sociological concept[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of sociological concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,613 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Part of: social structure[3]
  • Said to be the same as: Q25523410[4], social hierarchy[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Social stratification[6]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[7]
  • Has effect: social class[8], social hierarchy[9], social stratum[10]
  • Uses: demographics[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

Why It Matters

social stratification has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → social-stratification
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: social-stratification, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289960103|social stratification (#289960103)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0210468-socialni-stratifikace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0210468-socialni-stratifikace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Said to be the same as → Q25523410, social hierarchy
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 2510, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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