Social Stratification

Question 0

What are the basic principles of stratification?

Answer 0

Traits of society, not individual. Persists over generations. Universal, but variable. Involves not just inequality, but beliefs.

Question 1

Stratification

Answer 1

A system by which a society ranks an individual or groups on the basis of unequal access to scarce resources and social reward. Implies inequality.

Question 2

What is a caste system?

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Social stratification based on the ascription or birth. Strict-can’t be within other social classes

Question 3

What is a class system?

Answer 3

Social stratification based on birth and individual achievement.

Question 4

What is an apartheid?

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Any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.

Question 5

What is an ascribed status?

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Position in social system that’s beyond An individuals control.

Question 6

What is an achieved status?

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Position in social system that’s acquired on basis of merit, talents, ability.

Question 7

White Collar

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Higher prestige work that involves mostly mental activity

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Blue-collar

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Less prestige work, low class jobs, doesn’t pay very well.

Question 9

What is meritocracy?

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Social stratification based on personal merit

Question 10

What is status consistency?

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Degree of consistency and a person’s social standing across various dimensions of social inequality.

Question 11

What is occupational prestige?

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The rating of a job based on the social esteem/respects granted to an occupation.

Question 12

What is the Davis-Moore thesis?

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Social stratification has beneficial consequences to a society. A society has many different occupational positions. A society is a complex system. They work towards a stable society

Question 13

What is the Karl Marx social conflict?

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Inequality exists because those in control of a d disproportionate shared society’s resources actively defend the advantages

Question 14

What is proletariat and bourgeoisie?

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Proletariat- taken advantage of to maximize profit. High conflict.
Bourgeoisie- owners of land and industry equals profit.

Question 15

What is income disparity?

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Unequal distribution of household or individual income across the various participants in an economy.

Question 16

What is capitalism?

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Economic system which natural resources and businesses are privately owned

Question 17

What is socialism?

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Government controlled everything

Question 18

What is communism?

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All members of a society are socially equal.

Question 19

What is horizontal and vertical mobility?

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Horizontal mobility is the movement was in the same class. Vertical mobility is the movement from one class to another.

Question 20

What is intergenerational mobility and intra generational mobility?

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Intergenerational mobility is the movement between a person and the generations before them. Intra-generational mobility is the movement within one lifetime.

Question 21

What is absolute poverty?

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A minimum level of subsistence below which no family should be expected to live.

Question 22

What is relative poverty?

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View in which people at the bottom of the society are considered deprived or disadvantaged, in comparison to rest of society.

Question 23

What is the AFDC?

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Aid for families with dependent children. It helped take care of poor families with kids.

Question 24

What is the TAFN?

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Temporary assistance to needy families-cash assistance to families.

Question 25

What is Social Security?

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And assistance welfare type program designed to help with seniors, widows… Etc.

Question 26

What is a poverty threshold?

Answer 26

And amounts of money and family makes can define if you’re poor or impoverished