What term describes the arrangement of people into a hierarchy based on power, wealth, and prestige?

• A. Socialization
• B. World Systems Theory
• C. Stratification
• D. Assimilation

Answer: (C)

The concept here is social stratification—the structured ranking of people into a hierarchy based on access to resources, particularly power, wealth, and prestige. This arrangement creates unequal life chances, with some groups consistently exposed to advantages in areas like education, healthcare, and opportunities, often across generations. Distinct from this, socialization is about learning norms and values, assimilation is adopting another culture, and World Systems Theory looks at global inequalities between core and peripheral nations. So the term that best fits the description is stratification.