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What is Social Inequality?

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Situation in which members of society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power

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What is Stratification?

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Structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society

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What is income?

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Salaries and Wages, earned interest, stock, dividends, and rental income

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What are the 4 general systems of stratification as ideal types?

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Slavery, Castes, Estates, Social Classes

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What is Ascribed Status?

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Social Position assigned to a person by society without regard for the person’s unique talents or characteristics

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What is Achieved Status?

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Social Position that a person attains largely through his or her own efforts

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Slavery definition

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Individuals owned by other people who treat them as property

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What are Castes?

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Hereditary ranks that are usually dictated and that tend to be fixed and immobile

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Are Castes an Achieved Status or an Ascribed Status?

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Caste is an ascribed status

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What is an Estate System?

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Peasants worked land leased to them in exchange for military protection and other services

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What is a Class System?

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Social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility

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What are the dependent and ascribed factors of class?

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Race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, etc.

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What is Class Warfare?

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conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.

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What did Max Weber argue on Stratification?

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That stratification has many dimensions

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What is Capitalism?

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An economic system in which means of production are held largely in private hands, the main incentive is the accumulation of profits

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Who is the Bourgeois?

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Capitalist class; owners of the means of production

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Who is the Proletariat?

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Working class

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What is Class Consciousness?

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Subjective awareness of common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about change

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What is False Consciousness?

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An attitude held by members of class that does not accurately reflect their objective position

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Who held the view that social relations depend on who controls the primary mode of production?

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Karl Marx

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Who held the view of the 5 points of Class Differentiation?

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Karl Marx

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Who held the view that no single characteristic totally defines a person’s position within the stratification system?

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Max Weber

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What is Class?

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Group of people who have similar level of wealth and income

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What is a Status Group?

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People who have the same prestige or lifestyle?

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What is Power?
Ability to exercise one's will over others
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What is Conspicuous Consumption?
Purchasing goods not to survive, but to flaunt superior wealth and social standing
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Who stated that people at the top of the social hierarchy convert their wealth into Conspicuous Consumption
Thorstein Veblen
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What is the Functionalist Perspective of Stratification?
That social inequality is necessary so people will be motivated to fill functionally important positions
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Does the Functionalist Perspective of Stratification explain the wide disparity between the rich and poor
Nope
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More education=higher salary Higher salary=higher class higher class=more power True or False
True
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What is the Conflict Perspective of Stratification?
Human beings prone to conflict over scarce resources such as wealth and power
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The Conflict Perspective states Stratification is a major source of societal tension (race, gender, age, etc...) True or False
True
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The Conflict Perspective states Stratification is a source of social tension True or False
True
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What is Gerhard Lenski's Viewpoint of Society? [NUMBER 1]
As a society advances technologically, it becomes capable of producing a surplus of goods
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What is a Dominant Ideology?
A set of cultural beliefs and practices that help maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests
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What is Gerhard Lenski's Viewpoint of Society? [NUMBER 2]
Allocation of surplus goods and services by holders of power and wealth reinforces social inequality
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Wealthy use dominant ideology to further their own interest? Functionalist, Conflict, or Interactionist Perspective?
Conflict Perspective
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Social Stratification influences people's lifestyles Functionalist, Conflict, or Interactionist Perspective?
Interactionist Perspective
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Social Inequality is excessive and growing Functionalist, Conflict, or Interactionist Perspective?
Conflict Perspective
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Social Inequality is necessary to some extent Functionalist, Conflict, or Interactionist Perspective?
Functionalist Perspective
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The talents and skills of the wealthy create opportunities for others Functionalist, Conflict, or Interactionist Perspective?
Functionalist Perspective
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Social Inequality Influences Intergroup Relations Functionalist, Conflict, or Interactionist Perspective?
Interactionist Perspective
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What is the Objective Method of measuring social class
by assigning individuals to classes on basis of criteria such as occupation, education, income, and place of residence
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What is Prestige?
Respect, admiration, and occupation hold in a society
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What is Esteem?
Reputation a specific person has earned within an occupation
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What is Socioeconomic Status (SES)?
A measure of social class based on income, education, and occupation
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What is Absolute Poverty?
Minimum level of subsistence that no family should live below
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What is Relative Poverty?
Floating standard by which people at the bottom of society are judged as being disadvantaged in comparison to the nation as a whole
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Who are the Underclass?
Long term poor who lack training and skills
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What is Gans?
Poverty and the poor satisfy positive functions for many non-poor groups
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Who saw class as closely related to people's life chances?
Max Weber
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What are Life Chances?
People's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences
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Wealth, Status, and Power FAIL to provide additional ways of coping with problems and disappointment True or False
False
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What is Social Mobility?
Movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society's stratification system to another
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What is an Open System?
The position of each individual influenced by the person's achieved status
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What is a Closed System?
Allows little or no possibility of moving up
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What is an example of a Closed System?
Slavery and Caste Systems
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How many types of Social Mobility are there?
3
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What is Horizontal Mobility?
Movement within the same range of prestige
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What is Vertical Mobility?
Movement from one position to another of a different rank
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What is intergenerational Mobility?
Changes in children's position relative to their parents

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