class
All Members are categorized and put in certain groups according to gender, race, class, age or other characteristics
What is Social Class
The Higharchy of th economy. The rich people, who control/pay/make everything, those who are wealthy and make millions of dollars.
Upper Class
The economic group between the upper and lower classes, including professional and business workers and their families.
Middle Class
a measure of one's combined economic and social status. Three common measures:education, income, and occupation.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
money, status, but usually defined as monetary revenue generated through work
Wealth
All Members are categorized and put in certain groups according to gender, race, class, age or other characteristics
Social Stratification
Relating to the work done or those who work in an office or other professional environment
White Collar
relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry.
Blue Collar Job
the lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and unemployed.
Underclass
poor people that are working
Working Poor
the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group,
Intersectionality
Symbolic interactionism examines stratification from a micro-level perspective. This analysis strives to explain how people's social standing affects their everyday interactions. In most communities, people interact primarily with others who share the same social standing.
Symbolic Interactionism and Social Stratification
Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society.
Social Mobility
structural functionalists believe that social stratification in society exists because it serves an important role in the functioning of the society. Different strata are created due to differential capacity of actors and their ability to perform different roles
Structural Functionalism and Social Stratification
differentials because of the result of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and other important social markers.
Social Inequality
Horizontal mobility, which is a type of social mobility, refers to the change of physical space or profession without changes in the economic situation, prestige, and lifestyle of the individual, or the forward or backward movement from one similar group or status to another.
Horizontal Social Mobility
This refers to a change in the occupational, political, or religious status of a person that causes a change in their societal position. An individual moves from one social stratum to another. Vertical mobility can be ascending or descending
Vertical Social Mobility
Meritocracy is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class
Meritocracy
marriage between people from different sociological or educational backgrounds
Heterogamy
marriage between people from similar sociological or educational backgrounds.
Homogamy
Weber introduced three independent factors that form his theory of stratification hierarchy: class, status, and power. He treated these as separate but related sources of power, each with different effects on social action
Weber (Vaber) and Social Stratification
In Marx's view, social stratification is created by people's differing relationship to the means of production
Marx and Social Stratification
Status inconsistency is a situation where an individual's social positions have both positive and negative influences on their social status.
Status Inconsistency