Social Stratification Flashcards
Social class
The category of people who share a similar Socio economic position in society
Identified by looking at the jobs lifestyles attitude and behavior
Ascribed status
Derives from identifiable characteristics like age gender and skin color
Achieved status
Acquired via direct individual efforts
Upper middle class
Successful business and professional people
Middle middle class
Those who have been unable to achieve upper middle lifestyle because of education and economic shortcomings
Lower middle-class
Skilled and semiskilled workers
Prestige
amount of positive regard society has for a given person or idea
Power
The ability to affect others behavior through real or perceived rewards and punishments. Based on the unequal distribution of valuable resources
Have not’s
Proletariat
Haves
The Bourgeoise
Class consciousness
Organization of the working class around shared goals and recognition for a need of collective political action.
By working together the have-nots good for both and take control of the political and economic system.
Barrier to this is false consciousness
False consciousness
Miss perception of one’s actual position within society
Members could not see how bad conditions work, recognize the commonalities between their own experiences and others, or where to clouded to assemble into the revolutionaries
Anomie
Lack of social norms or breaking down of social bonds between individual and society
This accelerated social inequality
Anomic conditions:
Excessive individualism
Social inequality
Isolation
Strain theory
How anomic conditions can lead to deviance
Social trust
2 sources: reciprocity and social network
Social capital
Investments people make in their society in return for economic or collective rewards
The greater the investment the higher the level of social integration and inclusion
Examples social network
Benefits one receives from group association
Social networks and social inequalities
Create two types of social inequalities:
Situational(socioeconomic)
positional (how connected one is in that network)
These inequalities lead to the reinforcement of privilege
Privilege
Inequality in opportunity
Cultural capital
The benefits of one receives from knowledge abilities and skills
Strong ties
Peer group and kinship contacts
Weak ties
Social connections that Are personally superficial like associates. that are large in number and provide connections to wide range of other individuals
Ex social networking
Intersectionality
Compounding of disadvantage seen in individuals who belong to more than one oppressed group such as racial and ethnic my minorities female headed and elderly
Five ethnicities model
White black Asian Latino native American
Social mobility
Being able to move up or down from one class to another. Result of economic and occupational structure that allows one to acquire higher level employment opportunities
Vertical mobility
