Unit 7 Concepts
The important concepts in Unit 7 are listed below. The readings and other learning opportunities are designed to help you become familiar with these concepts. You should know the definitions of each concept and also how sociologists use these concepts. Try to incorporate these concepts into your work for this course.
| (1) Social Stratification | (21) Power |
| (2) Inequality | (22) Kuznets Curve |
| (3) Social Mobility | (23) Income |
| (4) Caste System | (24) Wealth |
| (5) Estate System | (25) Upper Class |
| (6) Class System | (26) Working Class |
| (7) Meritocracy | (27) Lower Class |
| (8) Status Consistency | (28) Intragenerational Social Mobility |
| (9) Classless Society | (29) Intergenerational Social Mobility |
| (10) Ideology | (30) Structural Social Mobility |
| (11) Davis-Moore Thesis | (31) American Dream |
| (12) Class Conflict | (32) Poverty |
| (13) Bourgeoisie (Capitalist Class) | (33) Relative Poverty |
| (14) Proletarians (Working Class) | (34) Absolute Poverty |
| (15) Alienation | (35) Feminization of Poverty |
| (16) Revolution | (36) Urban and Rural Poverty |
| (17) Blue-Collar Occupations | (37) Culture of Poverty (Blame the Poor) |
| (18) White-Collar Occupations | (38) Relative Opportunity (Blame Society) |
| (19) Socioeconomic Status (SES) | (39) Welfare Dilemma |
| (20) Conspicuous Consumption | (40) Working Poor |
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