EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
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Question
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Struggle
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Social class
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Social group
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Secondary group
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Detailed explanation-1: -A social class is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes. Membership in a social class can for example be dependent on education, wealth, occupation, income, and belonging to a particular subculture or social network.
Detailed explanation-2: -social class, also called class, a group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status.
Detailed explanation-3: -Social status is the level of social value a person is considered to possess. More specifically, it refers to the relative level of respect, honour, assumed competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society.
Detailed explanation-4: -There are three types of a person’s social status: Master, Achieved and Ascribed.
Detailed explanation-5: -A further important distinction between the formal usage of “social class” and “social status” is that in many usages, including here, the former is categorical and the latter is linear.