________________ refers to a society’s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power.

According to Marx, the ______________________ is the working class.

A ____________ is a group of people who share a set of characteristics—typically, but not always, physical ones—and are said to share a common bloodline.

A ___________________ is two or more people who identify with and interact with one another.

In an open stratification system, __________ statuses are important to our social ranking or advancement.

Labeling theorists call the first act of rule-breaking _______________.

In an open stratification system, __________ statuses are important to our social ranking or advancement.

____________ is a person’s wages or investment dividends.

A ___________________ is two or more people who identify with and interact with one another.

__________________ is the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions.