Chapter 7-Class

Question 1

Life chances

Answer 1

Likelihood of success is shaped by our access to valued material, social, and cultural resources

Question 2

Stratification

Answer 2

Structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in society

Question 3

Strata

Answer 3

Layers/levels of power and influence

Question 4

4 major systems of stratification

Answer 4

Slavery
Caste system
Estate system
Social class

Question 5

Slavery

Answer 5

System of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by others as property

Question 6

Caste system

Answer 6

Stratification system where the boundaries between strata are clear, relations between levels are regulated and social status is ascribed

Question 7

Estate system

Answer 7

Stratification divides power into 3 primary sectors(church , nobility, and commoners)

Question 8

Social class

Answer 8

System of stratification is primarily based on real and perceived socioeconomic status

Question 9

Social mobility

Answer 9

Describes movement within or between a society’s strata

Question 10

Open system

Answer 10

Movement between strata is possible

Question 11

Closed system

Answer 11

Doesn’t allow for social mobility between strata

Question 12

Horizontal mobility

Answer 12

Movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank

Question 13

Vertical mobility

Answer 13

Movement of an individual from one social position to another of a different rank

Question 14

Intergenerational mobility

Answer 14

Involves changes in the social position of children relative to their parents

Question 15

Intragenerational mobility

Answer 15

Involves changes in social position within a persons adult life

Question 16

Material resources

Answer 16

Economic assets we own or control

Question 17

Social resources

Answer 17

Positional prestige and our connections to others in social network

Question 18

Cultural resources

Answer 18

Includes tastes, languages, and way of looking at the world

Question 19

Income and wealth

Answer 19

Material ways to measure social class with income representing how much money someone receives over a specific period of time and wealth being the total value of all of someone’s material assets at a particular point in time

Question 20

Absolute poverty

Answer 20

Minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below

Question 21

Relative poverty

Answer 21

Floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole

Question 22

Meritocracy

Answer 22

Ones social position is earned through ability and effort

Question 23

Aristocracy

Answer 23

System in which social status is ascribed and inherited and there is little social mobility

Question 24

Bourgeoise

Answer 24

Ruling class that owns the means of production

Question 25

Proletariat

Answer 25

Working class who must sell their labor in exchange for wage because they don’t own the means of production

Question 26

Class consciousness

Answer 26

Subjective awareness of their common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about change

Question 27

False consciousness

Answer 27

Attitudes that don’t reflect their objective position that have been engendered by dominant ideology of the capitalists

Question 28

Max Weber 3 components of stratification

Answer 28

Class, status groups, and party

Question 29

Class

Answer 29

Group of people who have a similar level of economic resources

Question 30

Status group

Answer 30

Consists of people who share the same perceived level of prestige

Question 31

Socioeconomic status(SES)

Answer 31

Measure of social class position that combines education, occupation, and income

Question 32

Party

Answer 32

Represents capacity to organize to accomplish a particular goal

Question 33

Cultural capital

Answer 33

Tastes, knowledge, attitudes, and ways of thinking that we exchange in interaction with others

Question 34

5 class model

Answer 34

Upper class Upper-middle class Middle class Working class Underclass

Question 35

Caste

Answer 35

Born into -no movement

Question 36

Estate

Answer 36

Peasants, medieval also based on birth and distribution of farmland as wealth

Question 37

Occupational prestige

Answer 37

Collective attitudes about the status of various jobs

Question 38

Capitalism

Answer 38

Economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and main incentive for economic activity is the accusation of profits