Preliminary Exploration of Affective Stratification

As an important resource,affection is unequally distributed between different social ranks,and this phenomenon is called affective stratification. According to the affective valence,the research examined 1) whether the index of social stratification was sensitively reflected on affective stratification;2) the association between affective stratification and the other social stratification; 3) the factors which influenced affective stratification; 4) the relationship among affective stratification in different domains.The results are:1) there was a certain corresponding relationship between the distribution of the affective stratification and the existing social stratification index in the population; 2) the affective stratification was related to the subjective social stratification and the subjective socioeconomic status; 3) the affective stratification was cross domain; 4) the affective stratification was related to the source of pressure and the social support. Those results suggested that the concept of the affective stratification had its own value and characteristic.