Social Stratification

Social Stratification

The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy.

• Caste System

• Social Stratification

• Sociology

• Social Inequality

The unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of a society.

• Social Inequality

• Social Stratification

• Caste System

• Social Class

The most extreme form of social stratification, based on the ownership of people.

• Social Class

• Sociology

• Caste System

• Slavery

Social stratification determined by one's family history and background, cannot be changed.

• Social Class

• Caste System

• Slavery

• Social Inequality

Social class

Social stratification based on access to such resources as wealth, property, power and prestige.

• Social Inequality

• Sociology

• Social Class

• Social Stratification

The upper class makes up just 1% of the U.S. population, but its total net worth is greater than that of ___ percent of the rest of the population.

• 99%

• 100%

• 50%

• 99.9%

Social Stratification is the same across all societies.

• True

• False

What is upward mobility?

• Moving from a lower to a higher socioeconomical class

• oving from one country to another

• Moving from a higher socioeconomic class to a lower one

• Moving from one city to another

What is absolute poverty?

• An economic condition in which a family or individual has average income

• An economic condition in which a family or individual cannot afford basic necessities

• An economic condition in which a family or individual has no income

Working class jobs (mechanic, roofer, factory worker, plumber, hair stylist, construction, etc.) are often called

• life chances

• middle class

• blue collar

• class consciousness