social differentiation

noun

, Sociology.

1. the distinction made between social groups and persons on the basis of biological, physiological, and sociocultural factors, as sex, age, or ethnicity, resulting in the assignment of roles and status within a society.

Example Sentences

Archaeologists said the abundance of prestige goods in the burials showed the strong social differentiation of nomad society.

From New York Times

There is no reason why we should not repeat the experiences of peoples who have gone further upon the road of social differentiation than we have and develop like them parliamentary government.

From Project Gutenberg

How far, then, must the social differentiation have gone to warrant the assertion that the second prerequisite is an accomplished fact?

From Project Gutenberg

It is not enough that development of technique should make Socialist economy profitable from the viewpoint of the productivity of national labor; it is not enough that social differentiation, based on technical progress, should create the proletariat, as a class objectively interested in Socialism.

From Project Gutenberg

Mitchell S. Rothman, an anthropologist and Chalcolithic expert at Widener University not involved in the expedition, said these discoveries show “the industry and technology developing,” and “the very inklings of some kind of social differentiation.”

From New York Times