Income Stratification and Consumption Stratification
摘要
Social stratification refers to people’s understanding of the way of social organization as the arrangement of the members of a society into different categories of stratum in a more or less continuous hierarchical order (Waters, 2000a, 2000b). In a general sense, a social stratification system is based on economic, cultural or power (authority) differentiation, so we can analyze it from both subjective and objective aspects. In this stratification system, economic status is an important indicator for categorizing each person into a particular social stratum, and for economic stratification, income and consumption are the most typical variables. This chapter intends to describe and analyze the questionnaire data on residents from the National Sample Survey on Social Development and Social Construction in 2012–2013 from the perspective of income stratification and consumption stratification.