Learning Objectives

Chapter 8

  • Describe the dimensions of social stratification: social class, status, and power.
  • Identify the factors involved in economic inequality, including income, wealth, and poverty.
  • Identify the types of social mobility and the forces that help and hinder them.
  • Discuss structural/functional, conflict/critical, and inter/actionist theories of social stratification.
  • Explain the relationship between consumption and social stratification.
  • Describe the effects of globalization on social stratification.