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| Question | Answer |
| Absolute poverty. | A situation in which someone lacks the money to pay for the food, clothing and housing necessary to maintain a healthy way of life. |
| Achieved status. | A social position which individuals are able to gain through, for example, hard work and/or educational qualifications. |
| Ageism. | Being prejudiced against people because of their age. |
| Ascribed status. | A position or social standing given to an individual on the basis of inherited characteristics. |
| Caste. | A rigid system of stratification in which an individual cannot move from the caste into which they are born. |
| Cycle of deprivation. | A social process which may lead the children of poor parents to suffer poverty when adults. |
| Embourgeoisement. | The proposition that members of the working class develop middle-class attitudes and patters of behavior as they become more affluent. |
| Environmental poverty. | Deprivation experienced in neighborhoods that are ugly, dirty, unsafe and which lack adequate services and amenities. |
| Gender discrimination. | Treating people unfairly because of their gender. |
| Glass ceiling. | The informal barrier that makes it difficult for women to achieve high-level positions at work. |
| Income. | The money received by an individual in a period of time, for example, wages or interest on savings. |
| Institutional racism. | Occurs when the everyday practices and procedures of an organisation for example the police, lead to discrimination against ethnic groups either intentionally or unintentionally. |
| Life chances. | The changes that section of society have of achieving the things which are valued by their society. |
| Lifestyle. | The way in which members of a group use their resources. Lifestyles will reflect the attitudes of priorities of the group. |
| Middle class. | The section of society composed of people engaged in non-manual work and professional work. |
| Poverty trap. | The particular difficulties that the poor may experience in, for example, finding a job that pays more than is received from benefits. |
| Proletarianisation. | The proposition that many non-manual jobs in a modern economy put their workers in situations very similar to that of the manual factory worker. |
| Racial discrimination. | Treating people unfairly because of their ethnicity. |
| Racism. | Attitudes to and beliefs about race which usually involve negative stereotypes of another race and lead to discrimination against people of that race. |
| Relative deprivation. | Felt when people compare their own situation to that of others whom they believe to be unfairly better off. |
| Relative poverty. | A situation in which someone cannot afford to possess the kind of things and participate in the kind of activities considered by members of their society to be a normal part of life. |
| Sexism. | Being prejudiced against people because of their gender. |
| Slavery. | A form of stratification in which a section of the society has no rights. Individuals in this section of society are items of property which can be bought and sold. |
| Social exclusion. | When people are unable, or feel unable to play a full part in society. This may be owing to the lack of material resources, discrimination by others or a sense that the rest of society neither wants or accepts them. |
| Subjective class. | The class in which an individual places themselves. |
| Trade union. | An organisation established by employees to protect their economic interests. |
| Underclass. | The group of people at the very bottom of the social structure who either by their economic situation or culture, are cut off from the rest of society. |
| Wealth. | The assets owned by an individual (e.g. house, savings, a business). |
| Working class. | The section of society composed of people engaged in manual work. |
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