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• Social Status - position held by an individual society.
• Social Desireables

  power, prestige, wealth, white-collar job, blue-collar job
• White-collar job : involves professional or administrative work, often in an office setting.
• Blue-collar job : refers to jobs that involve manual labor, such as construction, manufacturing, or transportation.
• Wealth - The amount of money or other assets that a person or business has.
• Wealth - easiest to measure, material assets, can be intangible, like stocks and investments.
• Prestige - Widespread respect and admiration felt for someone due to his or her achievements or quality
• Prestige - respect and admiration given by society.
• Note: Prestige have different social statuses have different level of prestige.
• Power - ability to command others despite resistance. (Max Weber)
• Power : Three Bases for Legitimacy

  
  

  Traditional, Charisma, Rational-legal
• Social Stratification - The division of society into different social classes based on wealth, occupation, education, and other factors.
• Social Stratification - how the members of the society are divided into hierarchies.
• Social Stratification - implies that one class is above or below other social strata.
• Social Mobility - pertains to the movement of a person or group from one social status to another.
• Social Mobility has classifications such as: Horizontal Mobility, Vertical Mobility, Intragenerational Mobility, INtergenerational Mobility
• Horizontal mobility - occurs when a person changes their occupation but their overall social standing remains the same.
• Vertical Mobility - It is a change in the occupational, political, or religious status of a person that causes a change in their societal position. A person or social object moves from one social class to another
• Intergenerational Mobility : Refers to any change in the status of family members between generations.
• Intragenerational mobility - is social mobility that occurs over the course of a family or individuals' lifetime.
• Systems of social Mobility - open mobility system and closed mobility system