Roles And Inequality: Gender Flashcards
Social roles
The rules for action associated with particular statuses
Social statues
The categories of different kinda of people who interact
Social situations
The settings in which interaction takes place. They include culturally defined places, times, objects, and events
Social stratification
Any form of inequality characterized by regularly experienced experienced unequal access to values economic resources and or prestige
Class
A kind of social stratification that restricts individuals access to valued resources and prestige within a partially flexible system. Social mobility is possible but difficult
Caste
A system of stratification that ranks people on basis of birth. Born into a caste system at birth and cannot move to a higher rank