Lesson 7

Question 1

is the relative position of a person within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit.

Answer 1

Stratification

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Closed society

Question 3

emphasizes the clash of the different levels of classification, with each pursuing its own interests and the greatest possible benefit over scarce resources.

Answer 3

Conflict theory

Question 4

The most frequently studied type of social inequality, which is characterized by unequal distribution of income.

Answer 4

economic inequality

Question 5

Types of Social Mobility

Answer 5

Vertical Mobility

Horizontal Mobility

Question 6

takes place when one moves from one status to another, i.e. from being poor to becoming rich

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Vertical Mobility

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Middle class

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Open class system

Question 9

the employees, skilled or unskilled craftsmen, underemployed and indigent families whose incomes are meager and are therefore reliant on their salaries.

Answer 9

Lower class

Question 10

occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, and is based on the categories or groupings of people.

Answer 10

Social Inequality

Question 11

relates ideas of wealth, authority, prestige, and power to the levels of stratification in society.

Answer 11

Symbolic interactionism

Question 12

Assumes that the world was once agrarian where most of the work involved farming.

Answer 12

Three-world model.

Question 13

is the change from one status to another

Answer 13

Social Mobility

Question 14

emphasized global economic relations and considered states as belonging to a larger world-system.

Answer 14

World systems theory

Question 15

refers to the assessment of one’s behavior with respect to his or her role

Answer 15

Esteem

Question 16

Ab example for this is the egalitarian or age-set society, where people have equal chances of gaining higher status and prestige.

Answer 16

Open society

Question 17

argues that every part of society has its own function to ensure the stability of the overall system.

Answer 17

Functionalism

Question 18

Access to wealth is open to all, but only a few gain access to prestige

Answer 18

open and closed society

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

Social Stratification

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

Upper class

Question 21

Social Stratification categorizes society into three classes

Answer 21

Upper class
Middle class
Lower class

Question 22

is observed when a person who is poor in the province moves to another place where he is still considered poor.

Answer 22

Horizontal Mobility

Question 23

refers to the respect and recognition attached to one’s status.

Answer 23

Prestige