01:920:101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Egalitarianism, Duck Dynasty, Redlining

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: 01:920:101
• Professor: Professor Springer

Document Summary

How individuals and social groups are divided in society and the inequalities of wealth and power that result. Social inequalities that result from patterns in the social structure. The social structural position a group holds relative to the economic, social political, and cultural resources of society. A form of social stratification in which some people are literally owned by others as their property. Total subjection of individual to the interest of their owners. A social system in which one"s social status is given for life. Intimate relationships are restricted to members of one"s own caste. Money received from paid wages and salaries or earned from investments. Wages and salaries earned from paid compensation. Distribution: the level of inequality in society is greater than what people tend to think it ideally should be, and also greater than what people generally think it actually is. Inequality has been increasing over recent decades. Money and material possessions held by an individual or group.