Socoioeconomic status is a difference in the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. Originally understood as the difference between capitalists (the bourgeoisie) and the working class (the proliteriat), “socioeconomic stratification is not a cultural universal; it arose with the earliest states… which first appeared in Mesopotamia, according to anthropologist Morton Fried. Read More »
Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomic Class
By big_dreamer - Posted on April 16th, 2008
Tagged: bourgeoisie
• capitalism
• class
• discrimination
• power
• prestige
• proliteriat
• Socioeconomic status
• wealth
• welfare
• working class
• Broad prosperity
