Stratum

In the Merriam-Webster, the word stratum is a plural and it means the level of a persons’ status especially with regard to education or culture . I saw this on page 2 and it quotes ‘”Below this stratum of society was one in truly desperate circumstances.” then it goes on saying that the men there was uneducated and that lead them to unemployment or jobs that isn’t similar to society that the author was living in. Basically the society that the author currently is spectating is unusual to her because everybody there is doing things that aren’t what she is used to seeing as everyday society to her.