“分层”原为地质学家分析地质结构时使用的名词,是指地质构造的不同层面。社会学家发现社会存在着不平等,人与人之间、集团与集团之间,也像地层构造那样分成高低有序的若干等级层次,因而借用地质学上的概念来分析社会结构,形成了“社会分层”这一社会学范畴。社会分层是指按照一定的社会标准,将人 “Stratification ” The original term used by geologists to analyze geological structures refers to the different layers of geological structure. Sociologists have found that there is inequality in society, that human beings, groups and groups are also divided into several hierarchically ordered hierarchies like stratigraphic structures, thus borrowing the concept of geology to analyze social structures and forming “Social stratification ” this sociology category. Social stratification refers to the people according to certain social standards