Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Social System and Social Structure, grade: 1, The University of Kashmir (the university of kashmir), course: M.Phil, language: English, abstract: This study is an attempt to study the broad patterns of social stratification prevailing in the district of Pulwama. As a complex social phenomenon, social stratification, which refers to the division of society into various hierarchical strata, is as old as human civilization. While many have talked about a "classless society of either the past or the future, these ideas found very little support in historical experience. Though the phenomenon is common to all societies, its nature and forms vary from society to society, and from culture to culture.