Community, Policy, and Social
Action 2023/2024 guide
Sixth Edition
by
Anna Leon-Guerrero
, Chapter 2
Social Class
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, Social Stratification and Inequality
• Primary characteristics serve as social boundaries
• Society “stratifies” or ranks individuals or groups
• Stratification results in inequality
• Wealth is usually defined as the value of assets owned
by a household
– Is more unequally distributed and more concentrated
than income
Leon-Guerrero, Social Problems, 6e
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SAGE Publishing, 2019