Social inequality

• Social stratification: categorization of people based on SES
• Discrimination always involves act, while prejudice always involves thoughts
• Spatial inequality: involves certain populations having unequal access to resources, like grocery stores
• Residential segregation: different demographic groups live in different neighbourhoods from one another, can results in having different access to resources and quality of life
• Gentrification: occurs when a poor, urban area changes as people move in, pushing original residents out
• Urban renewal is the process of redeveloping an area of an urban area to improve its appearance and function, without pushing original residents out
• Horizontal mobility occurs when individual moves within the same class rather than up or down
• Social reproduction is a transmission of social inequality from one generation to the next
• Cultural capital refers to the non-monetary assets offered by society that influence individual's social mobility (like degree, knowledge etc)
• Social capital refers to individual's social network, which allows them to attain economic or personal gains
• Class consciousness is a term developed by Marx to describe how lower class should first come to understandf themselves as a class so they can fight for their rights
• False consciousness is a failure to recognize poverty as a product of oppressive class system
• Incidence of disease: a number of new cases of that disease per population
• Prevalence of disease: number of total cases of that disease per population
• Morbidity of a disease: is a state of having a disease
• Structural mobility refers to social mobility as a result of macro-social changes, generally impacting a significant part of the population.