Chapter 5 Slides

Question 1

What are Marx and Engels well known for?

Answer 1

Their work relating to the inequality and class. Especially tensions between working classes and owner classes

Question 2

What is Social Inequality?

Answer 2

The unequal distribution of resources

Question 3

What severely impacts life chances?

Answer 3

Access to resources in society

Question 4

What is Stratification?

Answer 4

The socially sanctioned patterns on inequality based on distinguishable attributes (such as race, age, gender, income, or occupation)

Question 5

What does Socially Sanctioned mean?

Answer 5

Classes that we as a society accept, something we as a society tolerate

Question 6

What does Patterns of Inequality that hierarchically rank people mean?

Answer 6

That according to certain criteria we see select groups who have less or more of a given resource

Question 7

What is the Robinhood Tax?

Answer 7

Taking from the wealthy and giving it to the poor

Question 8

What are the two systems of Stratification?

Answer 8

Open and Closed Systems

Question 9

What occurs in a open system?

Answer 9

An individual can hope out of one box and jump into another

Question 10

What occurs in a closed system?

Answer 10

Generally an individual cannot move from category to category

Question 11

What kind of system is Canada?

Answer 11

An open class system

Question 12

What is Social Class?

Answer 12

A shared membership in a group based on economic standing

Question 13

What is a Class System?

Answer 13

A hierarchical system of stratification based on achieved and ascribed economic measures such as annual income and the possession of resources

Question 14

What are Examples of closed systems?

Answer 14

Slavery and Caste Systems

Question 15

What are Slaves?

Answer 15

People without rights and no opportunity to acquire wealth of their own

Question 16

What is Social Mobility?

Answer 16

The movement that occurs within and between social classes in a social stratification system

Question 17

What is Intragenerational movement?

Answer 17

Within one persons lifetime

Question 18

What is Intergenerational movement?

Answer 18

Changes that happen between generations

Question 19

What is Socioeconomic Status?

Answer 19

The way of talking about social standing based on combined measurement of education, income, and occupation

Question 20

What is Financial Wealth?

Answer 20

Economic measure that describes assets derived from income, real estate, savings , stocks, bonds and investments that generate income

Question 21

What is Low income cut off?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What is Low income measure?

Answer 22

Any income that is less than 50% of the national median adjusted for family size

Question 23

What is the Social Safety net?

Answer 23

The collection of services and programs designed to lessen financial burdens experiences by low-income groups

Question 24

How does a functionalist view meritocracy?

Answer 24

It sees it as motivating people to push themselves to achieve more

Question 25

How does the Conflict perspective view Meritocracy and Stratification?

Answer 25

It sees it as not necessary for people to be productive and are not even idea. A by product of capitalism