Answer:
Think of a ladder where each step higher has more resources. The lowest person on the ladder has the least resources available to them while the highest of the ladder has the most resources available. These resources can be such things as money, education, access to health care, fancy cars, large houses, the newest technology, etc. Society’s layers are made of people, and society’s resources are distributed unevenly throughout the layers. The people who have more resources represent the top layer of the social structure of stratification. Other groups of people, with progressively fewer and fewer resources, represent the lower layers of our society.