Social Stratification Flashcards
A process in which people are set apart for differential treatment by virtue of their statuses, roles, and other social characteristics
Social Differentiation
a condition in which people have unequal access to wealth, power, and prestige
Social inequality
Most sever form of stratification
Slavery
A society of two distinct strata - a category of people who are ___ and a category of people who are legally the ___ of __
free
the property of others
People can be placed in servitude by (4 things)
1) Birth
2) Military Defeat
3) Debt
4) Capture and commercial trade
Approximately how many people are in slavery today?
30 million
Ranking is hereditary and permanent, and marriage between members of different categories is prohibited in this system.
Caste
Approximately how many people around the worlds duffer from caste discrimination?
250 million
The Brahmans are what type of people?
Priests and scholars
The Kshatriya are what type of people?
Warriors and royalty
Vaisyas
Merchants
Sudras
Peasants, craftworkers
Harijans
301 - 412
Social hierarchy centered on the monopoly of power and ownership of land by a group of religious and political elites is what system
Estate System
What are the three classes of the estate system?
1) Nobility
2) Clergy
3) Commoners and Laborers
Which category was the movement between the estates possible but rare?
Commoners and Laboreres
Class is based on what 5 categories?
1) Income
2) Wealth
3) Power over others
4) Prestige of occupation
5) Level of education
The upper class - the top ___percent of the population that controls ___ percent of the nation’s total income
5, 22
Upper middle class income in excess of___
$150,00
Upper middle class is the top ___ percent of earners
15
Types of jobs held by the upper middle class? (4)
1) Corporate executives,
2) Physicians
3) Attorneys
4) Upper-level management
Upper middle class are characterized by what type of living?
1) Large homes in the suburbs
2) Swimming pools
3) Gated communities
Upper middle class constitute America’s ___- ___ ___
small town elite
Lower middle class is ___ % of Americans
33
Lower middle class emmulate the lives of the upper middle class, but ___ the ___ to live like them
lack the resources
Types of occupations of the lower middle class? (4)
1) Teachers
2) Bank employees
3) Mid-level supervisors
4) Sales people
Lower middle class type of home?
modest - may or may not own
Lower middle class usually lives ___ to ___ and has little ____.
Paycheck to Paycheck
wealth
Working class is ___ % of the population
30
Occupations held by the working class. (3)
1) Factory
2) Clerical
3) Low-paying sales jobs
The poor is approximately ___% of the population.
14
____ % of Americans live in poverty
13.5
Single poverty line (in $)
12,060
Couple poverty line (in $)
16,240
Family of four poverty line (in $)
24,600
___ % of all poor people are white
46
__% of whites live in poverty
10.5
___% of African Americans live in poverty
24.5
___% of Latinos live in poverty
21.5
___ % of Native Americans live in poverty
25
___ American poverty rates are comparable to whites, but higher family incomes are often dependent on the earnings of numerous kin
Asian
___ of poverty: Women and girls constitute a disproportionate share of the poor
Feminization
People who are ___ account for most long-term poverty.
disabled and cannot work
___ of all poor families receive no housing assistance
3/4
Few than ___ of the poor receive public assistance
half
You doing better than your parents is known as ___ mobility
Intergenerational
Mobility that occurs during one’s life
Intragenerational
___ social mobility is doing better
Upward
___ social mobility is doing worse
downward
___ mobility is moving from one status/career to another at the same level
Horizontal
Davis- Moore Thesis is also known as
Structural Functional Theory
Davis-Moore Thesis explanation of positions
require little training, no talent, easily staffed -> lower salary
require skill, training and talent, tough to staff -> higher salary
