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| The money received for work or through investments |
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| All of an individual's material pessessions, inculding income. |
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| The midpoint of a group of numbers ranked from lowest to highest. |
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| The ability to carry out your will and impose it on others |
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| A type of power that occurs when you make someone do something against his or her will. |
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| The level of esteem assiciated wiht ones status and social standing |
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| Physicia, Lawyer, College Prefessor, Airline Pilot, Engingeer, Medical Technician, Clergy |
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| Social class that is very small in number and holds significant wealth |
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| Soical class that consists of high income memembers of society who are well educated but do not belong to t he elite membership of the super wealthy |
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| Is a social class that concissts of those who have moderate incomes |
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| generally made up of people with a high school diploma and a lower level of education |
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| Live in disadvantaged neighborhoods that are charactherized by four components: Poverty, Family disruption, male unemployment, and lack of individuals in high-status occupations. |
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| The ability to change social classes |
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| Refers to moving withih the same status category |
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| Refers to moving from one social status to another |
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| Intragenerational Mobility |
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| Occurs when an individual changes social stnading, especially in the workforce |
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| Intergenerational Mobility |
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| The change that family mamebers make from one cocial class to the next through generations |
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| WHen social changes affect large numbers of people |
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| Concept suggesting that within the U.S. each social class onctains a relatively fixed number of people |
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| Refers to a temporary state of poverty it occurs when someone goes through a job loss for a short period of time |
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| States that those who get ahead in society do so according to their own merit |
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| Is a styem in which people who earn more pay high taxes |
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| Is a system that taxes everyone the same percentage of money, but reslutls in the poor paying a higher percentage than the rich |
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| The division of people based on certain physical characteristics. |
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| THe classification of poeople who share a common cultural, linguistic, or ancestral heritage |
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| THe grouope that has the largest population in society and holds significant power and prestige |
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| is a gorup that has smaller population and less power than the majority group |
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| The prejjudice that asserts one rrace is inferior to another, thus making them less worthy of fair treatment. |
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| THe attempt to destory or exterminate a people based on their race and/or ethnicity |
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