Social Stratification

movement between social classes of strata

• endogamy

• social mobility

• power

an individual's assets and income

• objective method

• power

• class system

• wealth

workers who sell their labor in exchange for wages.

• proletariat

• power

• wealth

a grouping of people with similar levels of wealth, power and prestige

• power

• class system

• social class

an individual's rank according to wealth, power, and prestige

• socioeconomic status

• intergenerational mobility

• social inequality

marriage within one's social category

• class system

• objective method

• endogamy

unequal sharing of scarce resources and social rewards

• social inequality

• social class

• social mobility

a distribution of scarce resources and rewards determined on the basis of achieved statuses

• class systems

• social class

status differences among generations in the same family

• objective method

• wealth

• intergeneration mobility

Members of the ____________can afford to attend prestigious schools, and their families have often been wealthy for generations.

• lower class

• upper class