Question

discuss the religious ethinicity as a basis of stratification

Answer 1

Religious stratification is the division of a society into hierarchical layers on the basis of religious beliefs, affiliation, or faith practices.

According to Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, "the reason why religion is necessary is apparently to be found in the fact that human society achieves its unity primarily through the possession by its members of certain ultimate values and ends in common". Furthermore, Davis and Moore contend that it is "the role of religious belief and ritual to supply and reinforce this appearance of reality" that these "certain ultimate values" have. This is one possible explanation for why religion is one of the underlying factors which links various forms of inequality into a chain of stratification.