Social Differentiation
• Social differentiation is one of social structure model. • What is social differentiation? Social differentiation can be defined as s ocial classification horizontally. In society there are many kinds of groups based on many aspects. For example: religion, ethnic, gender, occupation. We cannot judge that certain group is superior than others. It is unfair to judge that woman is superior than man or on the contrary. • In sociology, grouping or classification such society cannot be done vertically, but horizontally. • Social classification is called social differentiation. • In fact, there are some cases that certain group or ethnic consider themselves are superior than other groups. For example, three decades ago: white people in South Africa considered they were superior than black people. Such point of view is called racialism. • In plural society, classificati