Social stratification is universal but variable.

Example : Influence of caste system on all aspects of the Indian society. Practice of class system, gender roles around the world.

Societies around us are heterogeneous in nature and thus divided into various strata or groups. Most societies exist with social systems of social division and social stratification. Everywhere society is divided into various strata. Hence, social stratification is found everywhere. At the same time the nature of inequality varies. ‘What’ is unequal and ‘how’ unequal, changes within the context of the societies.