Chapter 11 - Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interest & Class

Question 1

age grade

Answer 1

An organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of categories over his or her lifetime.

Question 2

age set

Answer 2

A formally established group o people born during a certain time span who move through a series of age-grade categories together; also known as age class.

Question 3

common-interest association

Answer 3

An association that results from an act of joining on sharing particular activities, objectives, values, or beliefs, sometimes rooted in common ethnic, religious, or regional background. Also known as sodalities.

Question 4

stratified societies

Answer 4

A society in which people are hierarchically divided and ranked into social strata, or layers, and do not share equally in the basic resources that support income, status and power.

Question 5

egalitarian society

Answer 5

A society in which everyone has about equal rank and shares equally in the basic resources that support income, status and power.

Question 6

social class

Answer 6

A category of individuals in a stratified society who enjoy equal or nearly equal prestige according to the hierarchical system of evaluation.

Question 7

caste

Answer 7

A closed social class in a stratified society in which membership is determined by birth and fixed for life.

Question 8

social mobility

Answer 8

An upward or downward change in one’s social class position in a stratified society.