Social Stratification
The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy
What is Social stratification?
This event takes place following graduation practice on June 16.
What is senior sunset?
The movement of individuals or groups within the hierarchical system of social classes
What is Social mobility?
This day is affectionately known as Star Wars Day.
What is May 4th.
An elite and largely self-sustaining group who possess most of the country’s wealth; they constitute about 1 percent of the U.S. population
What is Upper class?
A grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories
What is Social class?
10:00am
What is the time we need to arrive to Hofstra for graduation?
(Graduation: John Cranford Adams Playhouse @ Hofstra university. Wednesday June 25, 2025)
The mobility of the individual or group in the same social class, in the same situation category, without changing the level of power or status
What is Horizontal social mobility?
This is known as the world's hottest pepper.
What is a Carolina Reaper?
The stock of assets held by a person or household at a single point in time
What is wealth?
A measure of one's combined economic and social status
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
What is the senior Awards Banquet?
(Its Thursday May 29)
A change in the occupational, political, or religious status of a person that causes a change in their societal position
What is Vertical social mobility?
The number of eyes a bee has.
What is 5 (five)?
People who spend 27 weeks or more in a year in the labor force either working or looking for work but whose incomes fall below the poverty level
What is Working poor?
The interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
What is Intersectionality?
The very hardworking staff member who spends all year stressing out so that you can have a memorable senior year.
Who is Mrs. Smath?
(Really, make sure you thank her. She puts hundreds of hours of work into this.)
A system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit
What is meritocracy?
This was the first computer to use a color display.
What is the Apple 1?
More susceptible to less healthcare, education, work and income, relationship and criminal justice
What is people with lower socioeconomic statuses?
Differential access to and use of resources across various domains
What is Social inequality?
On Thursday June 12th we will be looking down to a great view from this location for this event.
What is PROM at Terrace on the Park.
(6pm-11pm, Tickets $150, you know who to see.)
Pertains to a person's capacity to alter their station relative to the economic status of their parents or grandparents, essentially the flexibility within a society to allow individuals to grow regardless of their initial station
What is Intergenerational mobility?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903).
Who is Marie Curie?
(She was known for her pioneering research on radioactivity.)
Constituting the class of salaried employees whose duties do not call for the wearing of work clothes or protective clothing
What is White collar?