Social Stratification

Question 1

Social class

Answer 1

The category of people who share a similar Socio economic position in society

Identified by looking at the jobs lifestyles attitude and behavior

Question 2

Ascribed status

Answer 2

Derives from identifiable characteristics like age gender and skin color

Question 3

Achieved status

Answer 3

Acquired via direct individual efforts

Question 4

Upper middle class

Answer 4

Successful business and professional people

Question 5

Middle middle class

Answer 5

Those who have been unable to achieve upper middle lifestyle because of education and economic shortcomings

Question 6

Lower middle-class

Answer 6

Skilled and semiskilled workers

Question 7

Prestige

Answer 7

amount of positive regard society has for a given person or idea

Question 8

Power

Answer 8

The ability to affect others behavior through real or perceived rewards and punishments. Based on the unequal distribution of valuable resources

Question 9

Have not’s

Answer 9

Proletariat

Question 10

Haves

Answer 10

The Bourgeoise

Question 11

Class consciousness

Answer 11

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

Question 12

False consciousness

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Anomie

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Strain theory

Answer 14

How anomic conditions can lead to deviance

Question 15

Social trust

Answer 15

2 sources: reciprocity and social network

Question 16

Social capital

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Social networks and social inequalities

Answer 17

Create two types of social inequalities:

Situational(socioeconomic)
positional (how connected one is in that network)

These inequalities lead to the reinforcement of privilege

Question 18

Privilege

Answer 18

Inequality in opportunity

Question 19

Cultural capital

Answer 19

The benefits of one receives from knowledge abilities and skills

Question 20

Strong ties

Answer 20

Peer group and kinship contacts

Question 21

Weak ties

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Intersectionality

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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

Question 23

Five ethnicities model

Answer 23

White black Asian Latino native American

Question 24

Social mobility

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Intragenerational changes

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Happen in a persons life time

Question 26

Inter-generational changes

Answer 26

Changes are from parents to children

Question 27

Meritocracy

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Based on intellectual talent and achievement and is a means for a person to advance up the social ladder

Question 28

Plutocracy

Answer 28

Rule by the upper class

Question 29

Horizontal mobility

Answer 29

Change an occupation or lifestyle that remains within the same social class

Question 30

Poverty

Answer 30

No Socio economic status and like a possessions or financial resources
Also can be a form of powerlessness or sociological and psychological condition of hopelessness indifference and distrust

Question 31

Social reproduction

Answer 31

The idea that social inequality can be passed on from one generation to the next

Example poverty

Question 32

Absolute poverty

Answer 32

When people do not have enough resources to acquire basic life necessities like shelter food clothing and water

Question 33

Relative poverty

Answer 33

When one is poor in comparison to a larger population

Question 34

Poverty line

Answer 34

Determined by the government calculation of the minimum income requirements for families to acquire the minimum necessities of life

Does not take into account geographic location or account for the cost of living in different communities

Question 35

Social exclusion

Answer 35

Sense of powerlessness when individuals feel alienated from society