Ch.7 Global Stratification

Question 1

Stratification

Answer 1

refers to layers

Question 2

Is social stratification systematic?

Answer 2

yes it is embedded in societies

Question 3

slavery

Answer 3

people are owned and treated like property

Question 4

Ideology

Answer 4

belief system that justifies social arrangements that would be questioned

Question 5

How was slavery perpetuated?

Answer 5

through inheritance

Question 6

What is south africa’s classification system?

Answer 6

• europeans
• africans
• asians
• coloureds

Question 7

Caste

Answer 7

social order in which one is born into a social class and may not leave it

Question 8

What are examples of a caste?

Answer 8

• india

- south africa

Question 9

Estate

Answer 9

clergy, nobility, serfs

Question 10

Nobility

Answer 10

landowners that collected taxes and served the king

Question 11

Clergy

Answer 11

powerful because kings crown depended on it

Question 12

Serfs

Answer 12

when land was sold serfs would go with them

Question 13

Global superclass

Answer 13

gap between rich and poor is ASTRONOMICAL

Question 14

Karl Marx

Answer 14

the means of production

Question 15

Max Weber

Answer 15

property, power, and prestige

Question 16

What was Marx’s perspective?

Answer 16

• ownership of production + control of the labor power of other a
• bourgeoisie and proletariat
  c

Question 17

Class Consciousness

Answer 17

understands the relationship between the social standing of their group relative to the economic order and social system

Question 18

False Class Consciousness

Answer 18

sees only their individual relationship to economic and social order

Question 19

When does social change occur according to Marx?

Answer 19

class consciousness

Question 20

What was Weber’s ideas?

Answer 20

• property, prestige, and power

Question 21

Property

Answer 21

things that you own

Question 22

Prestige

Answer 22

respect given to you by others

Question 23

Power

Answer 23

ability of individual or group to achieve their goals regardless of opposition from others

Question 24

What is the functionalist view?

Answer 24

• motivating qualified people

Question 25

What are Davis and Moores ideas?

Answer 25

• fill positions
• some positions are more important than others
• motivate people with greater rewards

Question 26

Why would Marx disagree with Davis and Moore?

Answer 26

those in power can maintain position

Question 27

What was Turmin’s critique of Davis and Moore’s theory?

Answer 27

• many different jobs are important for society
• we dont have a meritocracy
• all of society is no benefiting from social stratification

Question 28

What is conflict theory?

Answer 28

power stratification is inevitable

Question 29

What is Mosaca’s argument pertaining to what power needs to exist?

Answer 29

• leaders
• leader distributing power
• people are self-centered and will reward themselves

Question 30

How do people stay in power?

Answer 30

• controlling people’s ideas
• controlling information
• stifling criticism
• big brother technology

Question 31

What are 3 ways of classifying countries?

Answer 31

• most industrialized nations
• industrialized nations
• least industrialized nations

Question 32

Colonialism

Answer 32

colonizing powers take over other countries for their own gain

Question 33

Neo-colonialism

Answer 33

power through economic markets

Question 34

World System Theory

Answer 34

• core
• semi-periphery
• periphery
• external area

Question 35

How is poverty passed?

Answer 35

from one generation to the next