Social and Political Stratification

It refers to factors that are somewhat accepted or desired in a certain society.

• Social stratification

• Social desirables

• Class

• Prestige

It pertains to the accumulated economic capital of an individual or group.

• Power

• Prestige

• Wealth

• Class

It is defined as the capacity of an individual to influence another person to perform an act that she/he would not otherwise do.

• Wealth

• Class

• Prestige

• Power

Sociologists define it as a level of honor in human society attached to different groups with reference to the group's occupation.

• Caste

• Prestige

• Wealth

• Power

A system that denotes the classification of an individual or group of persons having an explicit societal status based on acquired characteristics.

• Power

• Wealth

• Caste

• Class

The term that is derived from the Spaniards meaning "breed".

• Class

• Caste

• Power

• Wealth

It is identical to the practice of feudalism.

• Caste

• Class

• Estate system

• Prestige

This system is the most extreme form of inequality in society.

• Slavery

• Feudalism

• Social class

• Social mobility

It is one of the dimensions of stratification that concerns the gap between the rich and the poor.

• Stratification

• Social class

• Social mobility

• Social Inequality

It implies the division or classification of members of the society into different strata.

• Social stratification

• Social desirables

• Wealth

• Power