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 …

…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.