Social Stratification

The access that people have to important life resources (e.g., safe neighborhood, healthy food, consistent contact with educated adults) is called

• life chances
• conspicuous consumption
• power
• redistribution

The jobs that people in the working class have are often called 

• green collar
• yellow collar
• blue collar
• purple collar

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 change is most likely called

• class appropriation
• ascribed status
• capitalism
• social mobility

Randy and his wife Stephanie each work full-time in a factory assembling windows for $13 an hour.  They rent a 2 bedroom apartment and have one child.  They can pay most of their bills, but occasionally run into money problems.  In which social class do they best fit?

• middle class
• working class
• working poor
• underclass

A business wants to try to decide which income level of customers to market to.  They want to find data on income and education level.  The data they are looking for is about their customers'__________.

• achieved status
• socioeconomic status
• conspicuous consumption
• life chances

What is Social Stratification?

• A system by which society categorizes people.

• A system by which society unites people.

• A system by which government categorizes people.

• A system by which the church categorizes people.

What is social mobility?

• Changes within the socio-economic hierarchy.

• Changes within the ethnic hierarchy.

• Changes within the social hierarchy.

• Changes within the gender hierarchy.

What is horizontal mobility?

• Your position changes along with your position in the hierarchy.

• Your position changes without changing your place in the hierarchy.

• Your position does not change due to economic stresses.

• Your position does not change due to governmental controls.

What is a closed system?

• social position is based on your economic success.

• social position is based on an ascribed status.

• social position is based on both work and ascribed status.

• social position is based on IQ and athletic ability.

In open system, there is

• less mobility up and down

• more mobility up and down

• more mobility depending on where you were born.

• more mobility depending on your political affiliation