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• Social Status


  The ways people in society perceive you
• Types of Social Status

  • High Status
  • Low Status
• High Status


  • You're well respected due to your wealth, career, or social influence
• Low Status


  • You are not well respected or even outcast by society due to a lack of wealth, prestige, education, etc.
• Sociologists such as Max Weber argue that people with high social status have privileges in society that people with low status do not
• Social Class


  A hierarchy of classes in society
• Lower Class


  • Also known as the working class, they're typically seen as being lower down in the social structure and therefore having low status. They're seen as having little money and, sometimes, poor manners.
• Middle Class


  • People in the middle class have a comfortable living (a home, a car, going on vacations) but do not generally get special privileges. Most people fit in the middle class bracket, but you may see yourself as lower middle class (struggling to pay off a mortgage and having generally populist tastes in food, for example) or upper middle class (quite comfortable but not able to throw around money).
• Upper Class


  • These people are often business owners who hold the means of production, enjoy expensive tastes, and are seen as having high status.
• Social Stratification


  A classification whereby people rank and evaluate each other as higher and, based on evaluations; inequality rewarded one another with wealth authority, influence, and status. It is the hierarchical arrangement and organization of social categories that develop into a social group together with status and their equivalent roles.