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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) |  | Definition 
 
        | 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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