Bourgeoisie Objective Message Poverty Level Intragenerational Mobility Social Inequality

1. 8.3 CHAPTER 3 REALITY
CONNECTION
Emily Keefe

2. BOURGEOISIE
• Owners of the means of production in a capitalist society

3. OBJECTIVE METHOD
• A technique used to rank individuals according to social class in which sociologists
define social class in terms of factors such as income, occupation, and education

4. POVERTY LEVEL
• The minimum annual income needed by a family to survive as defined by the U.S.
Census Bureau

5. INTRAGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
• A form of vertical mobility in which social status changes during one individual's life

6. SOCIAL INEQUALITY
• The unequal sharing of scarce resources and social rewards

7. SOURCES
LaVerne, T. (n.d.). Sociology Chapter 8:Social Stratification. Retrieved from Holt McDougal:
https://my.hrw.com/tabnav/controller.jsp?isbn=9780554028613