Lesson 7 Flashcards
is the relative position of a person within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit.
Stratification
An example of this is the caste system, where access to wealth and prestige is minimal. Once an individual is born poor, he or she will die poor.
Closed society
emphasizes the clash of the different levels of classification, with each pursuing its own interests and the greatest possible benefit over scarce resources.
Conflict theory
The most frequently studied type of social inequality, which is characterized by unequal distribution of income.
economic inequality
Types of Social Mobility
Vertical Mobility
Horizontal Mobility
takes place when one moves from one status to another, i.e. from being poor to becoming rich
Vertical Mobility
successful professional people like doctors, lawyers, owners and managers of small businesses with comfortable lifestyle due to their relatively bigger income, and valuing education as the most important basis of social status
Middle class
There is greater access to wealth and prestige. For example, individual born into a rich family has a higher chance of obtaining such access to wealth and prestige since birth compared to an individual who is born poor.
Open class system
the employees, skilled or unskilled craftsmen, underemployed and indigent families whose incomes are meager and are therefore reliant on their salaries.
Lower class
occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, and is based on the categories or groupings of people.
Social Inequality
relates ideas of wealth, authority, prestige, and power to the levels of stratification in society.
Symbolic interactionism
Assumes that the world was once agrarian where most of the work involved farming.
Three-world model.
is the change from one status to another
Social Mobility
emphasized global economic relations and considered states as belonging to a larger world-system.
World systems theory
refers to the assessment of one’s behavior with respect to his or her role
Esteem
Ab example for this is the egalitarian or age-set society, where people have equal chances of gaining higher status and prestige.
Open society
argues that every part of society has its own function to ensure the stability of the overall system.
Functionalism
Access to wealth is open to all, but only a few gain access to prestige
open and closed society
is a system by which members of society are ranked based on hierarchy
it can be a form of inequality in which groupings of people are systemically ranked on the basis of their access to resources such as wealth, power, and prestige.
Social Stratification
elite families who are the most abundant and successful in their respective areas, owning the means of production and distribution of goods, and services, and valuing heritage over wealth.
Upper class
Social Stratification categorizes society into three classes
Upper class Middle class Lower class
is observed when a person who is poor in the province moves to another place where he is still considered poor.
Horizontal Mobility
refers to the respect and recognition attached to one’s status.
Prestige
