Question
Define Social category.
Solution
Social Category : 1. It expresses in a way the nature of social group. Social category is statistical grouping of people classified together on the basis of particular characteristic they share such as having the same level of income or being in the same occupation.
2. Social categories are quite frequently and regularly employed in sociological research. For example if we are keen in caste relations in India, we might require to analyse difference in average earning between lower castes and upper castes considering them as two distinct statistical categories.
