Class systems are more rigid than caste systems.
The upper-upper class is considered consistent because its members enjoy high levels of power, wealth, and prestige.
Your stocks are one component of your wealth.
The term pink-collar refers to women who work in male-dominated fields.
People who earn very high incomes automatically have a high degree of prestige.
The term untouchables refers to the elite class.
The truly disadvantaged consists of service personnel and blue-collar workers who usually do not possess substantial assets.
Intergenerational mobility is always upward mobility.
Structural mobility may have an effect on intergenerational mobility.
The deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill led to an increase in the homeless population.
Relative and absolute poverty can be temporary for an individual but permanent for a society.
Conflict theorists argue that poverty has some benefits for society in that it supplies a pool of inexpensive labor for dirty jobs and their low wages hold down prices.
The interpersonal skills, habits, and educational credentials that a person may use to his or her advantage are called "cultural capital."
According to the Distributive Systems Theory, people in industrial societies benefit from sharing their surplus with others.
One concern of Symbolic Interactionism is the ways people learn to tolerate inequality.
