Chapter 5 Slides Flashcards
What are Marx and Engels well known for?
Their work relating to the inequality and class. Especially tensions between working classes and owner classes
What is Social Inequality?
The unequal distribution of resources
What severely impacts life chances?
Access to resources in society
What is Stratification?
The socially sanctioned patterns on inequality based on distinguishable attributes (such as race, age, gender, income, or occupation)
What does Socially Sanctioned mean?
Classes that we as a society accept, something we as a society tolerate
What does Patterns of Inequality that hierarchically rank people mean?
That according to certain criteria we see select groups who have less or more of a given resource
What is the Robinhood Tax?
Taking from the wealthy and giving it to the poor
What are the two systems of Stratification?
Open and Closed Systems
What occurs in a open system?
An individual can hope out of one box and jump into another
What occurs in a closed system?
Generally an individual cannot move from category to category
What kind of system is Canada?
An open class system
What is Social Class?
A shared membership in a group based on economic standing
What is a Class System?
A hierarchical system of stratification based on achieved and ascribed economic measures such as annual income and the possession of resources
What are Examples of closed systems?
Slavery and Caste Systems
What are Slaves?
People without rights and no opportunity to acquire wealth of their own
What is Social Mobility?
The movement that occurs within and between social classes in a social stratification system
What is Intragenerational movement?
Within one persons lifetime
What is Intergenerational movement?
Changes that happen between generations
What is Socioeconomic Status?
The way of talking about social standing based on combined measurement of education, income, and occupation
What is Financial Wealth?
Economic measure that describes assets derived from income, real estate, savings , stocks, bonds and investments that generate income
What is Low income cut off?
The annual family income value in dollars below which a family worse off than average due to the high proportion of income allocated to food, clothing, and shelter
What is Low income measure?
Any income that is less than 50% of the national median adjusted for family size
What is the Social Safety net?
The collection of services and programs designed to lessen financial burdens experiences by low-income groups
How does a functionalist view meritocracy?
It sees it as motivating people to push themselves to achieve more
How does the Conflict perspective view Meritocracy and Stratification?
It sees it as not necessary for people to be productive and are not even idea. A by product of capitalism
