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| ranking of groups or categories of people into social positions according to their access to desirables |
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| all the econmomic assets of a person - money and material objects such as land, natural resources, and productive labor services |
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| gain derived from the use of human or material resources |
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| capacity of people or groups to control or influence the actions of others, whether those others wish to cooperate or not |
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| favorable evaluation and social recognition given to a social position |
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| socioeconomic status (SES) |
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| a measure of social status that takes into account a person's educational attainment, income level, and occupational prestige |
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| wealth & income, power, and presige; use symbols to decide who fits into which category |
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| anything that communicates to others that an individual displaying it occupies a particular level of status |
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| people's demonstration of their socioeconomic status by displaying their status symbols blatantly |
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| tendency fro people who rank high in one area to also rank high in other status hierarchies |
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| condition that occurs when a person ranks high in one dimension of status and low in another |
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| extreme system of stratified inequality in which freedom is denied to one group in society that is owned by another and may be regarded as subhuman |
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| system of stratified inquality in which status is determined at birth and in which people generally cannot change their social position |
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| system of stratification associated with feudal society in which dominant power is held by land - owning nobles, and peasants are bound to the noble's land in a vassal relationship |
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| a relatively open form of stratification based mainly on economic status |
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| struggle between competing classes |
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| perceived and real differences between a society's classes |
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| shared awareness that members of a social class have about their common situation and interests |
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| any situation in which a person's subjective understanding of reality is inconsistent with the objective facts of the situation |
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| a change on the part of an individual or a group of people from one status or social class to another |
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| the upward mobility that results from changes in the social or economic system rather than from personal achievement |
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| take people in community and find out about their reputation; put them into classes based on that |
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