Exam 4 Flashcards
a group may earn what by it’s lifestyle?
status
a group with power would rank higher on what?
party
Weber saw peoples’ class position in their activities where?
market
Marx showed that the value of a product is created by what?
labor
social stratification in the United States primarily takes what form?
class system
a high status group does what to prevent it’s lifestyle from being copied?
complication of norms
what economic resource takes the form of homes, cars, artworks, stocks, and bonds?
assets
when a job meets more of society’s needs, Davis and More describe it as having greater what?
functional importance
the size of an elite group, as Milner observes, will not be made larger because status has what quality?
in-expansible
according to Davis and More, what has society developed to motivate it’s scarce talent to fill top positions?
social stratification
measures of an individual’s income, wealth, education, and occupation are added to form what was an indicator of SES?
index
what would theoretically happen when a larger number of people have high status?
status inflation
What do Davis and More assume about the most highly paid positions?
functional importance / scarcity of personnel
lowering a person’s status is difficult because status has what quality?
inalienable
Marx’s labor theory of surplus value is represented by what formula?
M - C -M
what type of relationship is a dating relationship in high school?
expressive
the ability to force others to do things against their will is what?
power
debts are substracted from what to calculate a person’s wealth?
assets
the fact that few people are talented enough and willing to do the most functionally important jobs is the problem of what?
scarcity of personnel
Milner finds that a person will not lose status by associating with someone of lower status when their relationship is what?
instrumental
party is based on power
true
a status group is normally a community
true
there is no social mobility within a caste system
true
stratification in the feudal era was an estate system
true
income is more concentrated in the upper quintiles that is wealth
false
in Marx’s labor theory of surplus of value, (C) stands for the capitalist’s profit
false
both Weber and Milner showed that a high class position will give a person high status
false
Weber defined class situation as one’s position within the system of manufacturing
false
Marx found that capitalists accumulate wealth by selling products at high prices
true
Davis and Moore presented a conflict theory of stratification
false - functionalist theory
How does the labor theory of surplus value explain the capitalist’s wealth?
The capitalist takes the value out of labor
Labor theory of value - explain how shoes cost $8 to make and $2 is given to labor
What problems are there with the conventional model of social class?
poetry threshold is only set, there is no definition of each class, there are no clear lines
what are the 4 elements in Milner’s theory of status relations?
- elaboration and complication of norms (high class change often to confuse lower)
- association and disassociation - hang out with kids to be cool. If you don’t, you’re stupid.
- expressive - significant other, show it
- instrumental - lab partner - in-expansible
- can’t create status
- can’t take status away - status inflations
what effects does social class have as an independent variable?
physical health, education, mental health, politics / criminal justice are affected by social class because a person may or may not make money to get them those things
how does Marx’s explanation of stratification differ from the one presented by Davis and Moore?
Marx:
Proletariat are controlled by bourgeoisie
Davis and More: social class is created by people and their talents to contribute
