What is the term for a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility?

conditions in which members of a society enjoy different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power

structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power

people's salaries and wages

material assets such as land, stocks, and other properties

a social position that is "assigned" to a person by society without regard for that person's unique talents or characteristics

a social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts

the most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or a group

estate system (feudalism)

requires peasants to work land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other services

a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility

hereditary system of rank, usually religiously dictated, that be tend to be fixed and immobile

an economic system in which the means of production are held largely in private hands, and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits

capitalist class owns the means of production, such as factories and machinery

a subjective awareness of common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about social change

an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective positions

people who have the same prestige of lifestyle

a group of people who have a similar lever of wealth and income

the ability to exercise one's will over others

measuring social class views class largely as a statistical category

the respect and admiration that an occupation hold in a society

the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation

socioeconomic status (SES)

a measure of social class that is based on income, education, and occupation

a minimum level of subsistance that no family should be expected to live below

a floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole

a trend in which women constitute an increasing proportion of the poor people of the United States

the opportunities people have to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences

the movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society's stratification system to another

one extreme of social moblitiy allows little or no possiblitiy of moving up

implies that the position of each individual is influencedby his or her achieved status

the movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank

the movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank

intergenerational mobility

changes in the social position of children relative to their parents

Intrageneralational mobility

Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life

continuing dependance of former colonies on foreign countries

unequal economic and political relationships in which certain industrialized nations and their global corporations dominate the core of the world's economics system

an approach to global stratificationthat contends that industrialized nations exploit developing countries for their own gain

the worldwide integration of government plicies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas

multinational corporations

the commercial organizations that are headquatered in one country but do business throughout the world

the far-reaching process through which developing nations move from traditional or less developed  institutions to those characteristics of more developed societies

the maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a people by a foreign power for an extended period

the functionalist view that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in developing nations