soc 101 final

Question 1

demonstration of status

Answer 1

thorstein veblen: theory of leisure class

Question 2

small hunter/gatherer groups (biggest/best looking perosn in the group)

Answer 2

physical prowess

Question 3

displaced physical prowess (determines your power, you know how to control money) buy the most expensive things

Answer 3

pecuniary prowess

Question 4

use of status symbols

Answer 4

conspicuous consumption

Question 5

higher arcicual arrangement of large social groups based on access & control over valued resources

Answer 5

social stratification

Question 6

concepts of life chances came from who?

Answer 6

Max Weber

Question 7

who said cultural universal must somehow be functional within social facts?

Answer 7

Durkheim

Question 8

extent to which a person/group social stratification system has access to & or control over valued resources

Answer 8

life chances

Question 9

contemporary sociologists (social inequality is functional) every society has access to & or control over valued resources

Answer 9

Davis Moore Theory

Question 10

most are open based on ownership of property & income & occupation (social stratification)

Answer 10

open & closed systems

Question 11

impossible to move from one layer to another in a system

Answer 11

closed stratification system

Question 12

allows for vertical, social mobility…movement from one layer to another in a social stratification

Answer 12

open stratification system

Question 13

slavery
a caste system
apartheid

Answer 13

examples of closed systems

Question 14

doesn’t allow for vertical, social mobility…movement from one layer to another in a social stratification

Answer 14

slavery

Question 15

a person’s occupation & social position is determined permanently at birth by their own parent’s ascribed characteristics (can’t move up or down)

Answer 15

a caste system

Question 16

expansion of division of labor (occupations grew rapidly) people brought in the idea that working hard & being prosperous was the way to become higher in their social stratification

Answer 16

caused caste system to break down

Question 17

being able to accomplish one’s goals w/o someone disturbing

Answer 17

power

Question 18

a caste system based on ranks

Answer 18

apartheid

Question 19

composite/combined measure of economic income

Answer 19

socio-economic status (SES)

Question 20

whats weber’s definition of income?

Answer 20

generated by wages/salary, property ownership

Question 21

whats weber’s definition of wealth?

Answer 21

income + all other assests

Question 22

not being able to meet one’s basic needs

Answer 22

absolute poverty

Question 23

being able to meet one’s basic needs but not being able to live in a normal standard of living

Answer 23

relative poverty

Question 24

who is most likely to become poor?

Answer 24

-children
-older non-whites
-2/3 of adults living in poverty in the U.S are women
-whites make up 60% below
-non-whites make up 40% (over-represented)

Question 25

-respect
-regard
-prestige regarded by community & peers a person enjoys & are they influential/have power?
-the economic dimension of social inequality

Answer 25

critics of marx…3 dimensions of social inequality

Question 26

all institutions that deliver our world-view (mass media, libraries, university system) used to want to maintain persisting world ideology

Answer 26

ideological infrastructure