Soc Unit 5- Stratification and Inequalities

WHO OWNS THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION?

• BOURGEOISIE
• KARL MARX
• RICH PEOPLE
• PROLETARIAT

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE CAPITALIST CLASS AND WORKING CLASS?

• INEQUALITY
• POWER
• STRATIFICATION
• CLASS CONFLICT

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF ALL OF A PERSON’S OR FAMILY’S ECONOMIC ASSETS, INCLUDING HOME, PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTY?

• SOCIAL ECONOMIC STATUS
• WEALTH
• POWER
• PRESTIGE

WHAT IS A SYSTEM OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN WHICH PEOPLE’S STATUS IS PERMANENTLY DETERMINED AT BIRTH BASED ON THEIR PARENTS’ CLASS STANDING?

• CLASS CONFLICT
• CLASS SYSTEM
• CASTE SYSTEM
• CAPITALIST CLASS

WHAT IS ANOTHER NAME FOR PROLETARIAT?

• THE UPPER CLASS
• THE MIDDLE CLASS
• THE WORKING CLASS
• THE UNDER CLASS

IN  A CLOSED SOCIETY YOU CAN.

• MOVE UP BY HARD WORD
• OBTAIN THE SAME LIFE CHANCES AS EVERYONE ELSE
• STAY IN THE SAME CLASS FOREVER
• OBTAIN ANY JOB YOU WANT

Julia grew up with a dad who worked on the railroad and a mom who ran an in-home daycare. She graduated from college and is now an accountant. She moved from the working class to the middle class. Julia's experience is an example of

• Prestige

• Relative Poverty

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

From this perspective, stratification exists so that the most qualified people fill the most important positions and the least qualified people fill the other positions

• Functionalism

• Conflict

• Symbolic Interactionism

A mail carrier works hard to give his son the opportunity to go to college and then medical school to become a doctor. This is an example of:

• Downward Mobility

• Intragenerational Mobility

• Intergenerational Mobility

• Structural Mobility

Garrett is excited to go to his high school reunion, so his classmates can see that he was successful and became a surgeon. Garrett is essentially looking forward receiving what from his classmates?

• Prestige

• Power

• Prejudice

• Classism Treatment