Social Status

Class system is a social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility. Income inequality is a basic characteristic of a class system (215). An example of this would be in 2000, the median household income in the United States was $42,148. Sociologist Daniel Rossides uses a five-class model to describe the class system of the United States: upper class, upper-middle class, lower-middle class, the working class, and the lower class. An …showed first 75 words of 919 total…

…showed last 75 words of 919 total…Institutional gender discrimination is made up of institutions in society that have formal and informal practices that believe women are inferior to men. The liberal-feminist perspective segregates women from the public sphere limiting women's economic opportunities. They become financially dependant on men and have less control of their lives. Gender-race-class interlocked refers to minority women experiencing triple oppression based on gender, race, and class and women experiencing double oppression based on gender, race, and class.