Question: Social differentiation

Answer: the process by which different statuses in any group, organization, or society develop

Question: social stratification

Answer: a relatively fixed hierarchical arrangement in society by which groups have different access to resources, power, perceived social worth; a system of structural social inequality.

Question: estate system

Answer: a system of stratification in which the ownership of property and the exercise of power is monopolized by an elite or noble class that has total control over societal resources

Question: caste system

Answer: a system of stratification in which one’s place in stratification system is determined by birth

Question: class system

Answer: the organized pattern of social class in society , achieved status