Sociology Social Class Test(AT) Flashcards
Who is Katherine Newman and what does she do?
An anthropologist and professor of urban studies at Harvard University and she examines the role of work in defining a person’s status.
Who is Richard Jenkins and what did he do?
A sociologist who has researched how the ascribed status of being disabled marginalizes a person in the labor market of the United States.
What is Weber’s “components of stratification”?
Class, status, and power.
Who is Veblen and what is conspicuous consumption?
A theorist and conspicuous consumption is a spending pattern common to those at the very top of the social ladder. It’s like purchasing more automobiles than they can reasonably use and building houses with more rooms than they can possibly occupy.
Who is Ralf Dahrendorf and what has he done?
A British sociologist who is one of the most influential contributors to the conflict approach. He has modified Marx’s analysis of capitalist society to apply to modern societies. He has merged Marx’s emphasis on class conflict with Weber’s recognition that power is an important element of stratification.
Who is William Julius Wilson and what did he do?
A sociologist who along with other social scientists coined the term “underclass”.
Who is Daniel Rosside and what did he do?
A sociologist who uses a five-class model to describe the class system of the United States: The upper class, the upper-middle class, the lower-middle class, the working class, and the lower class.
What is Weber’s definition of class?
A group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
What did Weber have to do with control?
He said that class does not totally define a person’s position with the stratification system.
What did Davis and Moore do and what did they argue about universal stratification?
They said that society must distribute its members among a variety of social positions and they argued that stratification is universal and that social inequality is necessary so that people will be motivated to fill functionally important positions.
Who was Lenski and what did he do?
A sociologist that in his sociocultural evolution approach, described how economic systems change as their level of technology becomes more complex, beginning with hunting and gathering and culminating eventually with industrial society.
Who was Gans and what did he do?
A sociologist who has applied functionalist analysis to the existence of poverty and argues that various segments of society actually benefit from the existence of the poor.
What did Herbert Gans Identify?
A number of social, economic and political functions that the poor perform for society.
What is social inequality?
A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power.
What is income?
Salaries and wages.
