Social Stratification

Which of the following scenarios is an example of intra-generational mobility?

• A janitor belongs to the same social class as his grandmother did.

• An executive belongs to a different class than her parents.

• An editor shares the same social class as his cousin.

• A lawyer belongs to a different class than her sister.

Which statement illustrates low status consistency?

• A suburban family lives in a modest ranch home and enjoys a nice vacation each summer.

• A single mother receives food stamps and struggles to find adequate employment.

• A college dropout launches an online company that earns millions in its first year.

• A celebrity actress owns homes in three countries.

Carl, born to a poor family in Trinidad, has become an educated politician at age 40.

Which of the following concepts best describe this type of Mobility.

• Absolute

• Horizontal

• Relative

• Vertical

The way that a society sorts people into rankings based on measures of factors such as wealth, income, race, education, gender, power, etc., is called

• Social circulation

• Social Stratification

• Socialisation

The two types of stratification systems are ________, which do not allow change in social position and ________, which are based on achievement and allow movement between levels.

• class systems; castes

• closed systems; open systems

• meritocracies; class systems

Social stratification is based on categories of

• sediment, igneous, and metamorphic striations.

• wealth, power, income, and race.

• recessions, depressions, and functionalisms.

What factor makes caste systems closed?

• They are run by secretive governments.

• People cannot change their social standings.

• Most have been outlawed.

What factor makes class systems open?

• They allow for movement between the classes.

• People are more open-minded.

• People are encouraged to socialise within their class.

• They do not have clearly defined layers.

Which of these systems allows for the most social mobility?

• Caste

• Monarchy

• Endogamy

• Class

Answer True or False

The functionalist perspective of society begins with the assumption that the needs of society are greater than the needs of individuals; in other words, the good of society is greater than the good of individuals.

• True

• False