Social Stratification

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Social Hierarchy:

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(ascribed or achieved) Could be received by birth or involuntarily.
Other it assumed through personal ability.

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Social Mobility:

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Ability to move through social strata.Through available jobs, number of people able to fill place.

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Relative Mobility:

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When jobs may change in a family, but social status remains the same, as well as category of income.

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Absolute Mobility

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The son's job and income exceeds that of the father, therefore moving the son into a higher social category.

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Race

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Deals with the physical appearance of the person and tendencies to disease regardless of the country of residence.

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Ethnicity

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Deals with the customs and traditions of a person based on where they live and culture. Has nothing to do with looks.

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Gender:

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Refers to those differences between men and women that have been acquired or learned and hence to the different roles and positions assigned to males and females in a society.

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Age:

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Refers to the ways in which people are differentially treated depending on their age.

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Sexual Orientation:

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The way people are treated depending on thier sexual orientation. Homosexuals tend to be discriminated in some societies.

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Kingsley Davis

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Sociologist who pushed for child- bearing restricitions and published an article with wilbert morre about the need for social stratification.