sociology
... Social stratification Sociology is a field which developed over a millennia ago, but it was not until the nineteenth century that it came into the fore as a bona fide social science, in need of its own classification apart from other social sciences. Sociology, “the systematic, scientific study of human society”, is a discipline, which is not exclusively independent in and of its self, yet borrows from many other disciplines such as: history, geography, and anthropology. American sociology is fundamentally analytical and empirical, it proposes to examine the way of life of individuals in the societies, prefers to explain institutions and structures in terms of the behavior of individuals and the goals, mental states, and motives which determine the behavior of members of various social groups. A specialization within Sociology is social stratification. This segment of sociology attempts to deal with the structures of any given society and ones’ relationship with the institution.