week 8

Question 1

Social stratification

Answer 1

Individuals / groups are layered or ranked in society according to how many valued resources they posses

Question 2

Stratification process

Answer 2

An ongoing process sorting people into layers, legitimated by cultural beliefs that justify inequality

Question 3

Classes

Answer 3

Lower class-> working-> lower middle class -> upper middle class-> upper class

Question 4

The Important of Stratification

Answer 4

Concept of stratification assumes that

• people are divided into ranked categories
• desired resources are unequally distributed

Question 5

Each society determines how individuals are ranked depending on

Answer 5

History geographic location level of development

• political philosophy
• decisions of those in power

Question 6

Inequality

Answer 6

Social condition in which privileges opportunities and substained rewards are given to people in some positions in society but ? Others
-resources society values more are income,wealth, power, prestige

Question 7

Income

Answer 7

Money, wages, payment

Question 8

Wealth

Answer 8

Accumulated assets in form of valued goods

Question 9

Power

Answer 9

Ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will

Question 10

Prestige

Answer 10

Recognition, respect, admiration attached to social patterns

Question 11

For sociologists

Answer 11

Power and it’s unequal distribution-stands at the heart of most social issues
-not everyone has the same level of affluence over the social institutions and policies that make up society

Question 12

Culture capital

Answer 12

Knowledge and access to important info

Question 13

Social capital

Answer 13

Networks w/others who have influenced

Individual qualities also influence cultural and social capital

Question 14

Meso level stratification

Answer 14

Access to resources

-individual stays is shaped by access to resources and reinforces by the family through socialization

Question 15

Macro level influences of strat.

Answer 15

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Question 16

Meso level

Macro level

Answer 16

Family

Country financial state

Question 17

Theories of stratification

Answer 17

Symbolic interaction it’s pose that

• individuals take up social positions through socialization in which they learn the appropriate cultural capital
• cultural capital influences children’s school and home environment
• social positions are represented by symbols

Question 18

Cultural capital

Answer 18

According to burdeau and passer on children from privileged families succeed

Question 19

Their cultural capital match?

Answer 19

With the school systems expectatioms
Not because they are natural more gifted
-over time, less privileged students may reject school bc and their knowledge is not respected with in the school system

Question 20

Theories of stratification-structual fictional theory

Answer 20

Stratification with in societies is inevitable

Question 21

The stratification system

Answer 21

Provides each individual with a position in the social world

• motivates individuals to carry out their roles
• as a result- each i individual contributes in someway to the mantience of society

Question 22

Structural-functional theorists-theories of stratification Davis and Moore argued that

Answer 22

Some positions are highly because people

Question 23

Conflict theory/ theories of stratification

Answer 23

Stratification is the outcome of struggles for dominance and scarce resources
-individuals and groups act in their own sense interest taking advantage of others

Question 24

Conflict theory

Answer 24

Between those trying to hold onto existing advantages and those trying to gain new advantages to gain