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Class
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Class in social science is a division of a society based on social and economic status, also refered to as social class.
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Elwell's Glossary of Sociology (undated) defines class thus:
Class: Most sociologists use the term to refer to socioeconomic differences between groups of individuals which create differences in their life chances and power.
Raynet Sociology Glossary (undated):
Class (social class) - A large category or group of people within a system of social stratification who have a similar socioeconomic status in relation to other socioeconomic segments of the society or community. A social class is not necessarily organized (but may become so, as in the case of the Marxian working-class), but the individuals who compose it are relatively similar in political, economic, educational, occupational, and prestige status. Those who are part of the same social class have similar life-chances. Max Weber has defined class in this manner, i.e., in terms of the expectations in life that an individual may have. One's class position yields certain probabilities (or life-chances) as to the fate one may expect in society. Of course, the Marxian definition of social class is in terms of a class's objective position or relation to the means of production in society - thus, not being explicitly concerned with other sociological criteria like occupational status, income, etc.
Richard Schaefer (2017):
Class: A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Class system: A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
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Sources
Elwell's Glossary of Sociology, undated, available at //campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/frank.elwell/prob3/glossary/socgloss.htm, page not available 20 December 2016.
Raynet Sociology Glossary, undated, available at //www.raynet.mcmail.com/sociology_gloss.htm, no longer available 20 December 2016.
Schaefer, R. T., 2017, 'Glossary' in Sociology: A brief introduction, Fourth Edition, originally c. 2000, McGraw-Hill. Available at //novellaqalive.mhhe.com/sites/0072435569/student_view0/glossary.html, site dated 2017, accessed 11 June 2017. Not found 1 June 2019.
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Term | Definition conditions in which members of a society enjoy different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power |
Term | Definition structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power |
Term | Definition people's salaries and wages |
Term | Definition material assets such as land, stocks, and other properties |
Term | Definition a social position that is "assigned" to a person by society without regard for that person's unique talents or characteristics |
Term | Definition a social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts |
Term | Definition the most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or a group |
Term estate system (feudalism) | Definition requires peasants to work land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other services |
Term | Definition a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility |
Term | Definition hereditary system of rank, usually religiously dictated, that be tend to be fixed and immobile |
Term | Definition 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 |
Term | Definition capitalist class owns the means of production, such as factories and machinery |
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Term | Definition a subjective awareness of common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about social change |
Term | Definition an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective positions |
Term | Definition people who have the same prestige of lifestyle |
Term | Definition a group of people who have a similar lever of wealth and income |
Term | Definition the ability to exercise one's will over others |
Term | Definition measuring social class views class largely as a statistical category |
Term | Definition the respect and admiration that an occupation hold in a society |
Term | Definition the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation |
Term socioeconomic status (SES) | Definition a measure of social class that is based on income, education, and occupation |
Term | Definition a minimum level of subsistance that no family should be expected to live below |
Term | Definition 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 |
Term | Definition a trend in which women constitute an increasing proportion of the poor people of the United States |
Term | Definition the opportunities people have to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences |
Term | Definition the movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society's stratification system to another |
Term | Definition one extreme of social moblitiy allows little or no possiblitiy of moving up |
Term | Definition implies that the position of each individual is influencedby his or her achieved status |
Term | Definition the movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank |
Term | Definition the movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank |
Term intergenerational mobility | Definition changes in the social position of children relative to their parents |
Term Intrageneralational mobility | Definition Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life |
Term | Definition continuing dependance of former colonies on foreign countries |
Term | Definition unequal economic and political relationships in which certain industrialized nations and their global corporations dominate the core of the world's economics system |
Term | Definition an approach to global stratificationthat contends that industrialized nations exploit developing countries for their own gain |
Term | Definition the worldwide integration of government plicies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas |
Term multinational corporations | Definition the commercial organizations that are headquatered in one country but do business throughout the world |
Term | Definition the far-reaching process through which developing nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristics of more developed societies |
Term | Definition the maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a people by a foreign power for an extended period |
Term | Definition the functionalist view that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in developing nations |
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