Unit 3: Social Inequality Vocab

3. A society's categorization of its people into socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power
5. A shared culture and way of life, including history, religion, culture
7. Prejudice or discrimination by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people based on their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group
8. People who reside in the higher level of the American middle class
15. A group with power, privileges, and social status greater than those around them
16. People who are employed but do not make enough to survive
17. The process where individuals or groups of different ethnic heritage are absorbed into the greater society
18. Unfair or prejudicial treatment of people based on things such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation
19. A human classification system that is socially constructed to distinguish between groups of people who share physical characteristics
20. A group of people who make up less than half of the entire population

1. A widely held, simplified, and essentialist belief about a specific group
2. The lack of necessary financial resources that individuals, households, or communities can't gain for necessities for a positive life
4. People who are very poor and have very little power or chance to improve their lives
6. People who reside on the highest level of the social ladder above all other classes
9. One group takes control over another and forces them to do as they are told.
10. The shift in an individual's social status from one status to another
11. Beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group of people
12. People who reside in the middle class who are closer to the poverty line and have lower levels of education
13. People in a social class that have jobs of low income, limited skill, and physical labor
14. The existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society