Chapter 8- Social Stratification

Question 1

ability to control the behaviors of others

Answer 1

power

Question 2

level of respect/admin in which one is reguided by others

Answer 2

prestige

Question 3

assures most qualified fill most important jobs

Answer 3

functionalist theory of social stratification

Question 4

fluid and abstract classes of people based on their jobs and income

Answer 4

social class

Question 5

hierarchal arrangements (layers) of individuals into divisions based on dimensions within a society

Answer 5

social stratification

Question 6

inequality exists due to willingness of others to exploit people, impedes progess

Answer 6

conflict theory of social stratification

Question 7

people who work minimum wage jobs and don’t make enough to live above the poverty line

Answer 7

working poor

Question 8

12%- typically unemployed who come form families who have been poor for generations

Answer 8

underclass

Question 9

30%- lower level managers, semi professionals, non-retail sales people

Answer 9

middle class

Question 10

30%- lower paid manual, clerical, craft, and retail sales workers

Answer 10

working class

Question 11

1%- investors, CEO’s

Answer 11

upper class

Question 12

14%- upper level managers, professionals, owners, of medium sized businesses

Answer 12

upper middle class

Question 13

a trend in the US in which women and children make up an increasing proportion of the poor

Answer 13

feminization of poverty