"Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political)."
The role that power and privilege plays in shaping and maintaining social hierarchies, with a focus on race and ethnicity.
Intersectionality: The concept that different forms of social and political oppression intersect and overlap, affecting individuals in unique and complex ways.
White Privilege: The societal advantages and benefits automatically given to those who identify as white, without consciously earned or desired.
Systemic Racism: The institutionalized patterns of discrimination or disadvantage experienced by people of color in various aspects of life, including education, employment, housing, and law enforcement.
Microaggressions: Subtle and unintentional discriminatory actions or comments that communicate negative assumptions about marginalized groups.
Cultural Appropriation: The taking of cultural elements from a minority group by a dominant group without respect or understanding for the group's history or significance.
Implicit Bias: The unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect our actions, beliefs, and decisions towards different groups of people.
Structural Violence: The indirect harm caused by systemic inequalities that prevent certain groups from accessing basic necessities and opportunities for well-being.
Allyship: The active support and advocacy for marginalized groups by people who hold privilege or power.
Historical Trauma: The lasting impacts of historical events and policies that have systematically oppressed and traumatized certain groups, affecting their physical, emotional, and social well-being.
Colorism: Prejudice and discrimination based on shading, which discriminates against individuals based on their skin-tone or phenotype.
"In modern Western societies, social stratification is typically defined in terms of three social classes: the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class; in turn, each class can be subdivided into the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum."
"Moreover, a social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe, or caste, or all four."
"The categorization of people by social stratum occurs most clearly in complex state-based, polycentric, or feudal societies, the latter being based upon socio-economic relations among classes of nobility and classes of peasants."
"Whether social stratification first appeared in hunter-gatherer, tribal, and band societies or whether it began with agriculture and large-scale means of social exchange remains a matter of debate in the social sciences."
"Determining the structures of social stratification arises from inequalities of status among persons, therefore, the degree of social inequality determines a person's social stratum."
"Generally, the greater the social complexity of a society, the more social stratification exists, by way of social differentiation."
"For instance, the stratification of neighborhoods based on spatial and racial factors can influence disparate access to mortgage credit."
"...based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political)."
"...each class can be subdivided into the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum."
"...a social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe, or caste, or all four."
"...each class can be subdivided into the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum."
"The categorization of people by social stratum occurs most clearly in complex state-based, polycentric, or feudal societies."
"The categorization of people by social stratum occurs most clearly in complex state-based, polycentric, or feudal societies."
"Generally, the greater the social complexity of a society, the more social stratification exists, by way of social differentiation."
"Determining the structures of social stratification arises from inequalities of status among persons, therefore, the degree of social inequality determines a person's social stratum."
"For instance, the stratification of neighborhoods based on spatial and racial factors can influence disparate access to mortgage credit."
"Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political)."
"...socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political)."
"Stratification is the relative social position of persons within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit."