cushingoid cushÂ·ingÂ·oid (kush'Ä­ng-oid') adj. Resembling the signs and symptoms of Cushing's disease or Cushing's syndrome.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Social integration. Social integration is the blending and unifying of social groups, most commonly seen in the desegregation of races throughout history.
Social stratification is a concept involving the classification of people into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions. Giddens (2009:1133) defines social stratification as âthe existence of structured inequalities between groups in society, in terms of their access to material or symbolic rewardsâ.