1. Social Stratification Overview 2. Marx and Weber's Contributions 3. Dimensions of Social Stratification 4. The Bourgeoisie 5. The Proletariat 6. Income vs. Wealth 7. Understanding

Certainly! Here's a concise rundown of the answers to your questions: 1. **Social stratification**: The ranking or hierarchy of individuals and groups in any given society. 2. **Key sociologists**: Karl Marx and Max Weber. 3. **Dimensions of stratification**: Wealth, power, and prestige. 4. **Bourgeoisie**: The class that owns the means of production in capitalist society. 5. **Proletariat**: The working class who sell their labor for wages. 6. **Income vs. Wealth**: Income is money received regularly; wealth is the total value of assets owned. 7. **Power**: The ability to influence or control the behavior of others. 8. **Prestige**: The respect or admiration given to a particular status or position. 9. **Functionalists on stratification**: They see it as necessary for society's stability and efficiency by ensuring roles are filled. 10. **Conflict theory on stratification**: Views it as a result of the exploitation of one class by another. 11. **Symbolic interaction on stratification**: Focuses on how social positions are constructed and interpreted through social symbols. 12. **False consciousness**: Misunderstanding among the working class of the true nature of their exploitation. 13. **Social class**: A group of people with similar levels of wealth, influence, and status. 14. **Reputational method**: Determining class based on what others think of a person's status. 15. **Subjective method**: Individuals identify their own social class. 16. **Objective method**: Based on measurable criteria like income, occupation, and education. 17. **Least biased method**: Objective method. 18. **Class consciousness**: Awareness of one's own social class and its interests. 19. **Upper class in America**: Wealthiest individuals with significant influence. 20. **Upper-upper class**: Old money, wealth inherited over generations. 21. **Lower-upper class**: New money, wealth earned in one's lifetime. 22. **Middle class in America**: Individuals with moderate income, education, and occupations. 23. **Middle-middle class**: Typically have some college education and comfortable living standards. 24. **Working class**: People in manual or low-skill jobs with lower income. 25. **Working poor**: Individuals who are employed but still live in poverty. 26. **Underclass**: People with few opportunities, often living in persistent poverty. 27. **Absolute poverty**: Inability to meet basic needs for survival. 28. **Relative poverty**: Living below the standards of wealth and income in society. 29. **Poverty measurement**: Using the poverty threshold by the U.S. Census Bureau. 30. **Identifiers of poverty**: Lack of education, single-parent households, minority status, and disability. 31. **Welfare reform**: Policies aimed at reducing dependency through work requirements. 32. **Social mobility**: Movement within social strata in a society. 33. **Types of mobility**: Horizontal, vertical, and intergenerational. 34. **Horizontal mobility**: Movement within the same social class. 35. **Vertical mobility**: Moving up or down the social hierarchy. 36. **Intergenerational mobility**: Changes in social status between generations. 37. **Caste system**: Rigid, hereditary class structure; positions are fixed at birth. 38. **Exogamy**: Marriage outside one's social group. 39. **Endogamy**: Marriage within one's social group. 40. **Most popular caste system**: India's caste system. 41. **Four caste categories**: Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaishyas (traders), Shudras (laborers). 42. **Open-class system**: A system with relatively few barriers to social mobility.