Social Stratification System Analysis

Before Malaysia is dependence, Malaysia was colonized by Britain in late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At this duration, Britain had brought up the capitalist ideas to Malaysia (and the change in carte system to class system) and thus, this concept is still running until now. This system is constructed by dividing the society into different social class: the upper class, middle class as well as the lower class.
There are 3 dimensions of stratification system which stated by Max Weber. That is wealth, prestige and power.
Wealth is referring to people’s economic assets or the materials one’s own. Wealth is usually determined by the income, or the salaries people earn for the work they do. The more salary you earn, the higher position you

Some people occupy a particular position are more deserving or honorable than other. Weber called this as status honor. It also called prestige which mean the social esteem or honor that is accorded to particular people by other. Prestige is differs from wealth and power. Wealth and power are objective entities while prestige is subjective. Prestige depends on how the individual is perceive by other. If the individual is rich and powerful but is seen by other as unworthy of respect, the individual has lower prestige. This can be seen accord to a variety of occupation. People has higher prestige score occupation require more educational preparation, receive higher incomes and involve more responsibility or supervision over people. Besides that, prestige can also stem from the neighborhood in which one lives or the car one drive. For example, if a person drive expensive imported car like Ferrari compare to person drive a Kancil. Who have more prestige? Driving a Ferrari will definitely have more prestige than a people that drives Kancil. In this situation, we can conclude that the person driving a Ferrari is above the person who drives a Kancil in the stratification

Social class may also refer to any particular level in such a hierarchy. Four common social classes informally recognized in many societies are: Upper class, Middle class, Working class, and the Lower class. Social mobility is referred to a change in position of the individual within the hierarchy. There are many types of social mobility, a distinction is made between horizontal and vertical social mobility. The former refers to change of occupational position or role of an individual or a group without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy, the latter refers essentially to changes in the position of an individual or a group along the social hierarchy. When a rural labourer comes to the city and becomes an industrial worker or a manager takes a position in another company there are no significant changes in their position in the hierarchy. Those are the examples of horizontal mobility. Horizontal mobility is a change in position without the change in statue. It indicates a change in position within the range of the same status. It is a movement from one status to its equivalent. But if an industrial worker becomes a businessman or lawyer he has radically changed his position in the stratification system. This is an example of vertical mobility. Vertical mobility refers