Social stratification is the term used for the system in which a society’s people are ranked into categories in a hierarchy. The people higher up the social ladder generally have more status, power, and wealth.
Each layer has many layers of social stratification
Each layer of social stratification constitutes a social class
The terms social stratification and social class mean the same thing
Social stratification exists in caste systems, whereas social classes only exist in noncaste systems
Money in a savings account
His clothes and other personal possessions
A paycheck he will receive next Friday
A house that he owns
The means of production
The prestige of the work it performed
Its labor
Its property
The child of a single mother
A 45 year old immigrant who moved here two years ago
A single female with a high school diploma
A 35 year old white male with a college education
People can move vertically, but not horizontally
People can only move intergenerationally
Social status is inherited and cannot be changed
Social status can be changed by education and hard work
Intergenerational mobility
Horizontal mobility
The caste system
A fairy tale
Vertical mobility
Intergenerational mobility
Horizontal mobility
Social stratification
Vertical downward mobility
Horizontal mobility
Vertical upward mobility
Intergenerational mobility
Have a very small upper class and an extremely large lower class
Have very large upper classes
Have very large middle classes
Have poor people only
Prestige must be bestowed upon a person, it is not claimed
What might be considered prestigious by one social class may not be considered prestigious by another
Prestige refers to the respect and honor attached to certain social positions
Only the working class is interested in obtaining prestige
Inequality exists because some people are willing to exploit others
Social stratification will eventually be eliminated when the workers revolt
Children in the US are taught that a person's social class is the result of their talent and effort
The inequality of social classes helps assurre that the most qualified people fill the most important positions
Symbolic interactionist perspective
Conflict perspective
Functionalist perspective
Inequality exists because some people are willing to exploit others.
Social stratification will eventually be eliminated when the workers revolt.
Children in the US are taught that a person's social class is the result of their talent and effort
The inequality of social classes helps assure that the most qualified people fill the most important positions
The proletariat
Class consciousness
Social stratification
Horizontal mobility
The working class acceptance of capitalist ideas
The social class into which you are born is the one that you should remain in your entire life
Most of the people in industrial societies belong to the middle class
Social stratification increases the stability of a society
Wealth
Stratification
Income
Prestige
Live in relative poverty
Live in absolute poverty
Are members of the working class in the United States
Belong to the monarchy
Wealth
Power
Income
Prestige
Caste
Power
Wealth
Prestige
Wealth ; power
Power ; prestige
Prestige ; wealth
Wealth ; prestige
Wealth
Legitimate power
Illegitimate power
Prestige
Prestige
Legitimate power
Illegitimate power
The President of the United States
Caste system
Open class system
Vertical mobility
Feminization of poverty
Horizontal mobility
Open class society
Feminization of poverty
Intergenerational mobility
Caste system
Open class system
Feminization of poverty
Vertical mobility