Q2: Stratification Systems

Question 1

Categorizing of 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

Social stratification describes the socioeconomic levels of a society as “____________,” with the wealthiest and most powerful citizens being at the top.

Answer 3

layers

Question 4

The hierarchical arrangement and establishment of social categories that may evolve into social groups together with statuses and their corresponding roles in the society.

Answer 4

Social Stratification

Question 5

Three Social Classes

Answer 5

• upper class
• middle class
• lower 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

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.

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middle class

Question 9

This class is able to meet both their needs and wants without even worrying about their finances because of the job and salary they have.

Answer 9

middle class

Question 10

This class includes the skilled and unskilled artisan, farm employees, underemployed, and indigent families.

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lower class

Question 11

Because of the given status in life, these people lack revenue or income and educational training or background. They also lack support network that could lift them up.

Answer 11

lower class

Question 12

Characteristics of Stratification Systems

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

Question 13

Stratification is ____________________ because it 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.

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universal but variable

Question 14

stratification ____________________ since it serves to categorize and rank members of society across generations resulting in different life chances

Answer 14

persists across generations

Question 15

Changes in the position within the social hierarchy.

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social mobility

Question 16

These are what make systems of social stratification work and it is through them that inform what it means to deserve wealth, success, or power.

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beliefs

Question 17

Forms of Stratification Systems

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1. Closed System of Stratification
2. Open System of Stratification

Question 18

It exists when a group of people are given different opportunities, depending on the characteristics they were born with, such as color, gender, or the economic situation of their parents.

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closed system

Question 19

In a ________ class system, you are stuck at your level.

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closed

Question 20

In this class system, your personal rights and freedoms depend heavily on the class you inherited when you were born.

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closed system

Question 21

One of the best-known forms of close system of stratification.

Answer 21

India’s Caste System

Question 22

While it is a social system of decreasing importance, it still holds in parts of rural India, and has a strong legacy across the country.

Answer 22

India’s Caste System

Question 23

The custom of marriage within your own caste category.

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endogamy

Question 24

This system of social stratification allow people to move from one social level to the next. Usually, people in this type of system wish to move from a lower social level to a higher one.

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open system

Question 25

It is one of the best examples of open system of stratification and is not based solely on ascribed status at birth alone.

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class system

Question 26

This system combines ascribed status and personal achievement or achieved status in a way that allows some social mobility.

Answer 26

class system

Question 27

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

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ascribed status

Question 28

It is earned through work, education, luck, and/or social climbing. It is changeable throughout one’s life.

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achieved status

Question 29

The system of stratification we have in Philippine society.

Answer 29

class system

Question 30

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

Answer 30

meritocracy

Question 31

Three Sociological Perspectives of Social Stratification

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1. Functionalism
2. Conflict Theory
3. symbolic Interactionism

Question 32

This perspective believes that every social class has its purpose or role to play a part in the society.

Answer 32

functionalism

Question 33

In this perspective, stratification is a necessary and inevitable consequence of the need to use the promise of financial reward to induce talented people to pursue important jobs and careers.

Answer 33

functionalism

Question 34

This suggests that social inequalities are functional for society because they provide an incentive for the most talented individuals to occupy jobs that are essential to the orderly maintenance of a society.

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Functional Theory/Functionalism

Question 35

This sociological perspective is the opposite of the functionalism.

Answer 35

Conflict Theory

Question 36

He viewed social stratification as creation of inequality between the rich and the poor, or the powerful versus the powerless.

Answer 36

Karl Marx

Question 37

In this perspective, stratification results from lack of opportunity and discrimination against the poor and people of color.

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Conflict Theory

Question 38

It views social stratification on a micro level where individuals affect others whom they have interacted because of their social class status.

Answer 38

Symbolic Interactionism

Question 39

In this perspective, social class affects how people interact in everyday life and how they view certain aspects of the social world.

Answer 39

Symbolic Interactionism

Question 40

Enumerate the Philippine precolonial social stratification from highest to lowest class.

Answer 40

1. Maginoo
2. Maharlika
3. Timawa
4. Alipin

Question 41

What important factor is highlighted in class system for some social mobility?

Answer 41

meritocracy

Question 42

The Philippine Pre-Colonial Social Stratification

They were the ruling class, the educated class, the royal class, and the privileged class during the Philippine pre-colonial society. It was from this class which the datu came from.

Answer 42

maginoo

Question 43

The Philippine Pre-Colonial Social Stratification

He is the head of the community called a barangay. He is synonymous to a monarch, rajah, sultan, and king to other countries.

Answer 43

datu

Question 44

The Philippine Pre-Colonial Social Stratification

They were well respected if not revered by the barangay. They were not expected to pay taxes. They would provide protection to the barangay and were responsible for providing and preparing the weapons at their own expense.

Answer 44

maharlika

Question 45

The Philippine Pre-Colonial Social Stratification

They were the majority of the barangay community. They were free. They could acquire property, have any job they wanted, pick their own wives, and acquire an alipin. They were expected to support the datu and pay their taxes; hence, their importance in the community was evident.

Answer 45

Timawa

Question 46

The Philippine Pre-Colonial Social Stratification

They had the least rights. They served their master who belonged to one of the classes that is above them.

Answer 46

alipin