Social Stratification

What is Social Stratification?

• The division of society into categories, ranks, or classes.

• The unequal sharing of scarce resources and social rewards

• A social structure in which classes are determined by ascribed status.

• A social structure in which classes are determined by achieved status.

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

What is a meritocracy?

• mobility is based on gender roles.

• mobility is based on family ties.

• mobility is based on individual talent and personal merit

• mobility is based on personal merit and ethnic stereotypes.

What three things affect socioeconomic status?

• income, heredity, and occupational prestige

• income, education and heredity

• education, heredity and work ethic

• income, education and occupational prestige.

Marriage between people of different social categories is known as...

• Exogamy

• Endogamy

• Homogamy

• Edamame

A social structure in which classes are determined by achieved status is a(n)...

• Class System

• Caste System

• Social Stratification

• Conflict System

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

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.