Social Class

Question 1

What’s social stratification?

Answer 1

Difference in social standing based on class, status, or power

Question 2

What’s cultural capital?

Answer 2

When one can use their cultural values, knowledge, accent etc to demonstrate the competence and status

Question 3

What’s social capital?

Answer 3

It’s advantages gained by one’s social network

Question 4

What’s social reproduction?

Answer 4

emphasizes the structures and activities that may transmit social inequality and inequity from generation to generation
- privilege

Question 5

What’s intergenerational mobility?

Answer 5

an extent to which some key characteristics or outcomes of individuals differ from their parents
- first generation

Question 6

Whats intragenerational?

Answer 6

Movement from one social class or status to another within individual lifetime

Question 7

What’s downward mobility?

Answer 7

Moving to a lower social class or status due to economic hardship, stigma, of alienation

Question 8

What’s upward mobility?

Answer 8

Moving to higher class due to fortune, respect or achievement

Question 9

What’s absolute poverty?

Answer 9

Amount of money necessary to meet basic needs such as food, healthcare, education etc

Question 10

What’s relative poverty?

Answer 10

People are deprived or poor based on their income needed in order to maintain their average standard of living.