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| social stratification | a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy |
| social mobility | a change in one positions in a social hierarchy |
| caste system | social stratification based on ascription |
| class system | a social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement |
| meritocracy | a system in which social position is based entirely on personal merit |
| status consistency | the degree of consistency in a person's social standing across various dimensions of inequality |
| structural social mobility | a shift in the social postionof large numbers of people due to changes in society itself |
| ideology | cultural beliefs that justify social stratification |
| davis-moore thesis | the assertion that social stratification has beneficial consequences for the operation of a society |
| capitalists | people who won an doperate factories or other business enterprises in pursuit of profits |
| proletarians | people who sell their productive labor for wages |
| alienation | the experience of powerlessness in social life |
| blue collar occupation | lower prestige work that involves mostly manual labor |
| white collar occupation | higher prestige work that involves mostly mental activity |
| socioeconomic status | a composite social ranking based on various dimensions of inequality |
| income | wages or salary form work and earning from investments |
| wealth | the toal value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts |
| intragenerational social mobiltiy | a change in social position occurring during a person's lifetime |
| intergenerational social mobiltiy | upward or downward social mobility of children in relation to their parents |
| relative poverty | the deprivation of some people in relation to others who have more |
| absolute poverty | a deprivation of resources that is life threatening |
| feminization of poverty | the trend by which women represent an increasing proportion of the poor |
