Module 3

Question 1

categorizing individuals or group of people based on factors such as power, wealth and prestige.

Answer 1

Social Classes

Question 2

the layering of these social classes from higher to lower class

Answer 2

Social Stratification

Question 3

defined as the hierarchical arrangement and establishment of social categories that may evolve into social groups together with statuses and their corresponding roles in the society (Cordero-McDonald, et al., 1995, 380).

Answer 3

Social Stratification

Question 4

How many classes is social stratification divided into?

Answer 4

Three social classes

Question 5

The social class at the top of the pyramid

Answer 5

Upper Class

Question 6

This class in the society is described by the sociologists as elite individuals or group of people that are most prolific and successful in their respective areas.

Answer 6

Upper Class

Question 7

These people may be stockholders and investors in very huge well-known companies from different industries here and abroad.

Answer 7

Upper Class

Question 8

The social class that divides the upper and lower class

Answer 8

Middle Class

Question 9

Social class made up of mostly professional individuals or groups of people like lawyers, doctors, managers,
owners of small businesses in the locality, and executives who work in the
corporate world, etc

Answer 9

Middle Class

Question 10

They are able to meet both their needs and wants without even worrying about their finances because of the job and salary they have. They live in spacious houses and situated in best suburbs. Their income can afford them a comfortable lifestyle. They value education the most since education to them is the
most important measure of social status.

Answer 10

Middle Class

Question 11

The lowest part of the pyramid of social classes

Answer 11

Lower Class

Question 12

These are the skilled and unskilled artisan, farm
employees, underemployed, and indigent families.

Answer 12

Lower Class

Question 13

Because of the given status in life,
these people lack revenue or income and educational training or background.
Without the proper education, some of them are jobless or have difficulty to find a
job in order to make ends meet. They also lack support network that could lift them
up.

Answer 13

Lower Class

Question 14

What are the 4 Characteristics of Stratification Systems?

Answer 14

1. Universal but variable
2. Not a matter of individual differences
3. Persists across generations
4. A social beliefs

Question 15

It is what we are talking about when we
talk about social inequality and social mobility.

Answer 15

Social Stratification

Question 16

Stratification shows up in every society in the
world, but how exactly it looks like, how it divides and categorizes people, and what
the advantages or disadvantages are that come with that division - vary from society
to society.

Answer 16

Stratification is universal but variable

Question 17

We know we can see the effects of social
stratification on people regardless of their personal choices or traits. For example,
children of wealthy families are more likely to live longer and be healthier, to attend
college, and to excel in school as compared to children born into poverty. Moreover,
they are more likely to be wealthy themselves when they grow up.

Answer 17

Stratification is not a matter of individual differences

Question 18

Stratification serves to categorize and rank members of society across generations, resulting in different life chances. Yet generally, society allows some degree of social mobility, or changes in the position within the social hierarchy. People sometimes move upward or downward in social
class, which is the basic concept of social mobility.

Answer 18

Stratification persists across generations

Question 19

Tell us how to categorize people, and
they define inequalities of a stratification system as being normal, or even fair. If
people don’t believe that the system is right, it won’t last.

Answer 19

A social beliefs

Question 20

They are what make systems of social stratification work and it is through these ________ about social stratification that inform what it means to deserve wealth, success, or power.

Answer 20

Beliefs

Question 21

What are the 2 forms of stratification systems?

Answer 21

1. Close System of Stratification
2. Open system of stratification

Question 22

What form of stratification is India’s caste system?

Answer 22

CLOSE SYSTEM OF STRATIFICATION

Question 23

marriage within your own caste category

Answer 23

Endogamy

Question 24

one of the best examples of open system of stratification and is not based solely on ascribed status at birth alone. Instead, it combines ascribed status and personal achievement or achieved status in a way that allows some social mobility.

Answer 24

Class System

Question 25

Status assigned or given by the society or
group based on some fixed category, without regard to a person’s abilities or
performance.

Answer 25

Ascribed status

Question 26

Examples of ascribed status

Answer 26

sex, family background, race, and
ethnic heritage or wealth.

Question 27

A person did nothing to earn these statuses, nor has control over these characteristics and had no opportunity or chance to choose family,
sex, and race

Answer 27

Ascribed Status

Question 28

Status earned by the individual.

Answer 28

Achieved status

Question 29

one establishes which statuses he or she wants. Frequently, a person struggles and exerts more effort on others to get hold of them.

Answer 29

Achieved Status

Question 30

The system of stratification we have in Philippine socety

Answer 30

Class System

Question 31

a system in which social mobility is based on personal merit and
individual talents

Answer 31

Meritocracy

Question 32

Social Stratification in 3 Sociological Perspectives

Answer 32

1. Functionalism
2. Conflict Theory
3. Symbolic Interactionism

Question 33

States that social inequality brought by social stratification base from wealth, prestige, and power of social groups, is indeed functional in the society.

Answer 33

Functionalist Theory

Question 34

Views social stratification as creation of inequality between the rich and the poor, or the powerful versus the powerless. (bourgeois capitalists vs proletariats)

Answer 34

Conflict Theory

Question 35

Views social stratification on a micro level where individuals affect others whom they have interacted because of their social class status. In most societies, people can only interact only to those with the same social class status.

Answer 35

Symbolic Interactionism

Question 36

relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

Answer 36

Egalitarian

Question 37

a system in which social mobility is based on personal merit and individual talents.

Answer 37

meritocracy