Across
- 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
Down
- 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