Chap 10. Social Stratification Flashcards
Is a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy, so that some people have more money, power, and prestige than others.
Social Stratification
A person’s social position is determined by their family or ancestry at birth, not by personal abilities or achievements.
Caste System
A change in
position within
the social
hierarchy
Social mobility
Social stratification based
on ascription,or birth
Caste System
Social stratification based
on both birth and individual achievement
Class System
Social stratification based
on both birth and individual achievement
Meritocracy
Cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality.
ideology
A shift in the
social position of large numbers of people due more to changes in society itself, than to individual efforts.
Structural Social mobility
The degree of
uniformity in a person’s social standing across
various dimensions ofsocial inequality
Status consistency
What two countries were at first in the Middle Ages caste system and today’s days are class system?
The United Kindgom and Japan
What two countries do their efforts to reduced economic inequality but, instead increased it?
Soviet Union and China
An example of a country that is castle system is ?
India
Ascription=
Birth
Individual achievement=
Meritocracy
The functional
analysis claiming that social stratification has
beneficial consequences for the operation of
society.
Davis-Moore Thesis
