Chapter 8 Sociology

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.

The unequal sharing of scarce resources and social rewards is known as...

• Social Inequality

• Social Stratification

• Exogamy

• Bourgeoisie

According to Marx's Conflict Theory, the Bourgeoisie are...

• owners of the means of production in a capitalist society

• workers who sell their labor in exchange for wages

• "untouchables", the lowest class in the caste system

• politicians who create and maintain social order

A Social Class is...

• a grouping of people with similar levels of wealth, power, and prestige

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

• social structures in which classes are determined by achieved status.

• division of society into categories, ranks, or classes

Wealth is...

• made up of assets - the value of everything a person owns - and income - money earned through salaries, investment returns, or other capital gains.

• the ability to control the behavior of others, with or without their consent.

• respect, honor, recognition, or courtesy an individual receives from other members of society

• the greatest thing ever

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.

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 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

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

What factor makes caste systems closed?

• They are run by secretive governments.

• People cannot change their social standings.

• Most have been outlawed.