Social stratification is the division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy based on access to wealth, power, and prestige.
The upper class are the wealthiest people in the class system. They only make up about 1% of the U.S. population, but they possess most of the wealth of the country. They buy over-the-top mansions, while many people cannot even afford to buy food or water.
Car mechanics are members of the working class, which consists of "blue-collar" or service industry workers. They perform manual labor for a living.
Cultural capital is knowledge, skills, tastes, and dispositions that one acquires through being part of a particular social class. For example, upper-class individuals have a taste for caviar because they have been exposed to it through their life experience.
The American Dream is the ideology that anyone can achieve material success if they work hard enough. It is usually imagined as owning a house with a white picket fence. In reality, not every individuals chances of upward mobility are equal. There are structural factors that contribute to an individual's success or failure.
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