Social Stratification

Question 1

A process in
which people are set apart for
differential treatment by virtue of
their statuses, roles, and other social
characteristics

Answer 1

Social Differentiation

Question 2

a condition in which people have unequal access to wealth, power, and prestige

Answer 2

Social inequality

Question 3

Most sever form of stratification

Answer 3

Slavery

Question 4

A society of two distinct strata - a category of people who are ___ and a category of people who are legally the ___ of __

Answer 4

free

the property of others

Question 5

People can be placed in servitude by (4 things)

Answer 5

1) Birth
2) Military Defeat
3) Debt
4) Capture and commercial trade

Question 6

Approximately how many people are in slavery today?

Answer 6

30 million

Question 7

Ranking is hereditary and permanent, and marriage between members of different categories is prohibited in this system.

Answer 7

Caste

Question 8

Approximately how many people around the worlds duffer from caste discrimination?

Answer 8

250 million

Question 9

The Brahmans are what type of people?

Answer 9

Priests and scholars

Question 10

The Kshatriya are what type of people?

Answer 10

Warriors and royalty

Question 11

Vaisyas

Answer 11

Merchants

Question 12

Sudras

Answer 12

Peasants, craftworkers

Question 13

Harijans

Answer 13

301 - 412

Question 14

Social hierarchy centered on the monopoly of power and ownership of land by a group of religious and political elites is what system

Answer 14

Estate System

Question 15

What are the three classes of the estate system?

Answer 15

1) Nobility
2) Clergy
3) Commoners and Laborers

Question 16

Which category was the movement between the estates possible but rare?

Answer 16

Commoners and Laboreres

Question 17

Class is based on what 5 categories?

Answer 17

1) Income
2) Wealth
3) Power over others
4) Prestige of occupation
5) Level of education

Question 18

The upper class - the top ___percent of the population that controls ___ percent of the nation’s total income

Answer 18

5, 22

Question 19

Upper middle class income in excess of___

Answer 19

$150,00

Question 20

Upper middle class is the top ___ percent of earners

Answer 20

15

Question 21

Types of jobs held by the upper middle class? (4)

Answer 21

1) Corporate executives,
2) Physicians
3) Attorneys
4) Upper-level management

Question 22

Upper middle class are characterized by what type of living?

Answer 22

1) Large homes in the suburbs
2) Swimming pools
3) Gated communities

Question 23

Upper middle class constitute America’s ___- ___ ___

Answer 23

small town elite

Question 24

Lower middle class is ___ % of Americans

Answer 24

33

Question 25

Lower middle class emmulate the lives of the upper middle class, but ___ the ___ to live like them

Answer 25

lack the resources

Question 26

Types of occupations of the lower middle class? (4)

Answer 26

1) Teachers
2) Bank employees
3) Mid-level supervisors
4) Sales people

Question 27

Lower middle class type of home?

Answer 27

modest - may or may not own

Question 28

Lower middle class usually lives ___ to ___ and has little ____.

Answer 28

Paycheck to Paycheck

wealth

Question 29

Working class is ___ % of the population

Answer 29

30

Question 30

Occupations held by the working class. (3)

Answer 30

1) Factory
2) Clerical
3) Low-paying sales jobs

Question 31

The poor is approximately ___% of the population.

Answer 31

14

Question 32

____ % of Americans live in poverty

Answer 32

13.5

Question 33

Single poverty line (in $)

Answer 33

12,060

Question 34

Couple poverty line (in $)

Answer 34

16,240

Question 35

Family of four poverty line (in $)

Answer 35

24,600

Question 36

___ % of all poor people are white

Answer 36

46

Question 37

__% of whites live in poverty

Answer 37

10.5

Question 38

___% of African Americans live in poverty

Answer 38

24.5

Question 39

___% of Latinos live in poverty

Answer 39

21.5

Question 40

___ % of Native Americans live in poverty

Answer 40

25

Question 41

___ American poverty rates are comparable to whites, but higher family incomes are often dependent on the earnings of numerous kin

Answer 41

Asian

Question 42

___ of poverty: Women and girls constitute a disproportionate share of the poor

Answer 42

Feminization

Question 43

People who are ___ account for most long-term poverty.

Answer 43

disabled and cannot work

Question 44

___ of all poor families receive no housing assistance

Answer 44

3/4

Question 45

Few than ___ of the poor receive public assistance

Answer 45

half

Question 46

You doing better than your parents is known as ___ mobility

Answer 46

Intergenerational

Question 47

Mobility that occurs during one’s life

Answer 47

Intragenerational

Question 48

___ social mobility is doing better

Answer 48

Upward

Question 49

___ social mobility is doing worse

Answer 49

downward

Question 50

___ mobility is moving from one status/career to another at the same level

Answer 50

Horizontal

Question 51

Davis- Moore Thesis is also known as

Answer 51

Structural Functional Theory

Question 52

Davis-Moore Thesis explanation of positions

Answer 52

require little training, no talent, easily staffed -> lower salary

require skill, training and talent, tough to staff -> higher salary