Social Stratification In Gosford Park

Social stratification can take on many different forms. It is first necessary to identify the links between what social stratification is and how it relates to the plot lines in the movie. The first basic principal is that social stratification is a trait of society, not simply a reflection of individual differences. Taken into context this means that society dictates to people how they should be treated. If you were born into the high class than you were meant to marry up, mingle with the right people and to proceed in certain ways in society. If you were unfortunate enough to be born into the lower classes, bourgeois or lower, than you actions and place in life in tremendously different. Not much is expected of the individual and if they do work their way up through the ranks than they are still held in low regard by there "peers." This was of course seen in the way the members of the party that came from old money addressed William and there attempts to take advantage of him due......



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