Social Stratification (CH12) Flashcards

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1
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How is socioeconomic status determined?

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By achieved and ascribed status

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Derives from clearly identifiable characteristics, such as age, gender, and skin color.

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Ascribed Status

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Is aquired via direct, individual efforts. In other words, this status is voluntary.

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Achieved Status

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Refers to the amount of positive regard society has for a given person or idea.

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Prestige

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Proposes that the proletariat could overthrow the bourgeoisie, as well as the entire capitalist economy by developing class consciousness.

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Marxist Theory

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Refers to the organization of the working class around shared goals and recognition of a need for collective political action.

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Class Consciousness

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Refers to a lack of social norms, or the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and society.

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Anomie

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Inequality in opportunity.

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Privilege

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Refers to peer group and kinship contacts, which are quantitatively small but qualitatively powerful.

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Strong Ties

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Refer to social connections that are personally superficial, such as associates, but that are large in number and provide connections to a wide range of other individuals.

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Weak Ties

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Changes in social status happen within a person’s lifetime.

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Intragenerational Changes

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Changes are from parents to children.

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Intergenerational Changes

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

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Meritocracy

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When a system is ruled by the upper classes.

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Plutocracy

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Based on the concept of “holes” in the structure of society rather than poverty due to the actions of the individual.

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Structural Poverty

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A socioeconomic condition in which people do not have enough money or resources to maintain a quality of living that includes basic life necessities such as shelter, food, clothing and water.

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Absolute Poverty

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One is poor in comparison to the larger population in which they live.

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Relative Poverty

18
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The overall greater concentration of poor individuals in urban centers help to explain the migration pattern of the middle classes to suburban communities.

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Suburbanization

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A previously functional portion of a city deteriorates and becomes decrepit over time.

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Urban Decay

20
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City land is reclaimed and renovated for public or private use.

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Urban Renewal

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When upper and middle class populations begin to purchase and renovate neighborhoods in deteriorated areas, displacing the low-SES (socioeconomic status) population.

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Gentrification

22
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Categorizes countries and emphasizes the inequalities of the division of labor at the global level.

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World System Theory

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Focus on higher skills, and higher paying productions, while exploiting peripheral nations.

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Core Nations

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Focus in on lower skilled productions.

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Peripheral Nations

25
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Midway between the two, these nations work toward becoming core nations, while having many characteristics of peripheral nations.

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Semi-Peripheral Nations