Answer: The correct option is D. wealth, power, and prestige
Explanation:-
Most of the societies have social stratification where societies are characterized by having vertical hierarchy.
Status inconsistency is situation where individuals occupy different vertical positions in various hierarchies. It is believed that status inconsistency has strong effects on behavior of people. In such cases, the people reasoning may react to any problems associated with status position and may react to it or try to resolve them. Most of the work were associated with inconsistency between material status and prestige or respect that arises from education, occupation.
In other words, status inconsistency describes people situation having mixtures of high and low ranking in three components of social class, ie., wealth, power, prestige.
On the basis of the above explanation is:
The status inconsistency is a mixture of low and high rankings in 3 components, ie., wealth, power, prestige.