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What is a stratification?

What is a stratification? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. the process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks
  2. (music) a layering of musical texture
  3. (ecology) the vertical layering of vegetation in a forest
  4. (sociology) society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata
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A primary depositional feature of many layered rocks is stratification, or bedding.
Social stratification was pronounced in the countryside of Europe even before the enclosure movement.
Even though Manipuris are Hindu, the Indian caste system is not the basis of social stratification.
In a survey of a human population, stratification may be based on socio-economic factors or geographic region.
His attack on racial and class-based stratification in the military exposes the hidden underside of a significant concurrent political reality.
This could, at best, be described as unintelligently differentiated stratification.

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