SOC 103 Study Guide - Walmart, Class Consciousness, Chronic Poverty

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Social stratification: society"s hierarchical ranking of people into social classes. Social class: group of individual"s sharing a common position in a social hierarchy, based on both birth and achievement. Social status: individual"s position within the social structure. Soc103 how society works: all societies redistribute materials and social rewards to individuals (food, money, social prestige) Society allocates its limited resources to those who offer the greatest benefit to the whole; society must believe that they can achieve wealth and status through individual attributes. Intergenerational mobility: status as defined by parent"s social class; comparing adult children"s status to that of their parents. Intragenerational mobility: status movement throughout one"s life; comparing status position over their lifetime. Has little relationship to skills or abilities: present in all known human societies, but varies in how it expresses itself. Social inequality results from collective decisions about what is important in evaluating a person or group.

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