society with an institutionalized social stratification theme
Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political). Featured is a society that is more or less formally organized around one or more such principles.
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The following are necessary requirements for the theme to apply: There must be a clearly identifiable grouping of the people in the society into (at least) two groups. There must be laws or other relatively strong institutions that perpetuate that grouping. Said grouping must have significance for the way the society is governed.
5 total · 3 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| futurama4x02 | major | The sewer mutants were discriminated against on account of their sub-human class. |
| movie: Kindzadza (1986) | major | Social status among the Plukanians was indicated by pant color. |
| tos3x19 | major | The inhabitants of the cloud city dominated an underclass that dwelled and toiled in the mines. |
| futurama4x04 | minor | It was illegal for mutants to leave the sewers because they were genetically inferior to humans. |
| futurama6x12 | minor | The sewer mutants were discriminated against on account of their sub-human class. |