UCSP: Lesson 6

• It is related to social acceptance, social approval, popularity, social status, leadership qualities, or any quality making him a socially desirable companion.

• Social Desirables

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• Dictate how one should be treated in a society of inequality.

• Social Desirables

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• Systematic categorization of individuals and institutions in a society based on their roles or functions and statuses. 

• Social Desirables

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• Each individual is accorded with specific tasks or ascribed with a particular role to play in the society.

• Social Desirables

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• Individual's ability to move from one place to another along stratified positions of society.

• Social Desirables

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• The ease or difficulty an individual experience in moving from one social position to another is highly dependent on the type of society he or she lives in.

• Social Desirables

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

• Education plays a vital role in social mobility. It allows people at the lower strata of society to move upward in the social order.

• Social Desirables

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

Encompasses the properties owned by an individual as well as his or her material assets and investment capital like money.

• Wealth

• Power

• Prestige

The capacity to influence or control the behavior of individuals and institutions, whether by persuasion or coercion.

• Wealth

• Power

• Prestige

Defined as esteem, respect, or approval for culturally valued acts or qualities.

• Wealth

• Power

• Prestige