Noun
The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.
The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests. Walter Rodney
Capitalists and their predecessors-slaveowners, moneylenders, merchant-investors-owe their very existence to the State. In early times, concentration of political and spiritual power precedes economic stratification in society. Peter Gelderloos
Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics. Ada Lovelace
Domestication involved the initiation of production, vastly increased divisions of labor, and the completed foundations of social stratification. This amounted to an epochal mutation both in the character of human existence and its development, clouding the latter with ever more violence and work. John Zerzan
I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia. Mohsin Hamid
The use of money results in social stratification and elitism based primarily on economic disparity. Jacque Fresco