The passage is largely concerned with _____ .

Society is, regrettably, less interested in the individual
than in the position which he occupies. One almost
never asks a person “Who are you?”, but one
constantly asks “What do you do?”. For one reason or
another, people are assorted into various categories
which determine the roles they are to play in society.
This assorting process, called social differentiation,
goes on in all societies. Women as a class have a
status distinct from that of men, and children have a
status unlike that of adults.