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What is a stratification?

What is a stratification? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. the process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks
  2. (music) a layering of musical texture
  3. (ecology) the vertical layering of vegetation in a forest
  4. (sociology) society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata
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This could, at best, be described as unintelligently differentiated stratification.
In a survey of a human population, stratification may be based on socio-economic factors or geographic region.
The notion of labour market stratification, whereby the market does not clear, is essential to the explanatory analysis.
Even though Manipuris are Hindu, the Indian caste system is not the basis of social stratification.
His attack on racial and class-based stratification in the military exposes the hidden underside of a significant concurrent political reality.
Social stratification existed, with political power residing in a chief of state or a royal family, depending on the size of the state.

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