Social stratification has been a crucial issue in the society since the beginning of time because it places an individual in this form of a social ladder that identifies where that being stands in the society. Social class refers to how individuals and groups are classified into hierarchies in society on the basis of factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power
(Cole, 2017). These groups are commonly known as lower, middle, and upper class. Thus, all societies have some form of system that describes its social structure. It has a massive impact in the society and the world around us. Social class can be placed into the dichotomies of structure and agency. According to Little (2008), a class system is a system for producing social wealth in which productive resources and the results of production are unevenly divided across different groups. It establishes social inequalities as well. The lower class, who produces the labor force, is oppressed by the upper class. Thus, wealth is transferred from producers of the labor force to owners. The upper class sustains the productive economic activities of subordinates whom they exploit, and they crush down acts of resistance.
Likewise, the lower class uses instruments of power to reduce or overturn the exploitative social relations within which they function.
The relations of production that constitute to the class system of the society is concerned to the relative position of social groups by the means of production. The