| A | B |
|---|
| social stratification | ranking of people by unequal access to resources |
| social class | segment of society whose members hold similar resources |
| bourgeoisie | class that owns means of production |
| proletariat | Marx's name for labor class |
| income | amount of money received over a period of time |
| wealth | total economic resources held by a person |
| power | the ability to control others |
| prestige | respect and admiration attached to social positions |
| false consciousness | adoption of the ideas of the dominant class by the less powerful |
| working poor | people employed in low-skill jobs |
| underclass | people typically unemployed who have been poor for generations |
| absolute poverty | the absence of enough money to buy necessities |
| relative poverty | measure of poverty by comparing social classes |
| feminization of poverty | trend in US where women make up more of the poor |
| horizontal mobility | change in occupation in same social class |
| vertical mobility | an upward or downward change in social class |
| intergenerational mobility | a change in status from one generation to the next |
| caste system | system that does not allow social mobility |
| open-class system | system which allows movement between social classes |
