Sociology Ch 22- Why is there Social Stratification?

A set of cultural beliefs and values that justify a particular way of organizing society. Ideology also includes strongly held beliefs about a society's patterns of inequality.

• ideocracy

• ideality

• identity

• ideology

Which of the followings is not part of the Davis-Moore thesis?

• We have social stratification because it's functional to society.

• This guarantees that difficult jobs will be filled, the thinking goes, and will draw people away from easier and less important work. So, the more important a job is for the proper functioning of society, the more a society rewards it.

• Not all jobs that are important are necessarily hard to learn, or come with high pay.

• it argues that society assigns greater economic and social rewards to those jobs that are more important to society.

What are the problems with the Davis-Moore Thesis?

• Not all jobs that are important are necessarily hard to learn, or come with high pay.

• If inequality is functional for society because it motivates hard work, then society should reflect this by being meritocratic.

• They ignored the fact that not all paths are equally open to all people.

• all of the above

What is stratification based on according to Karl Marx?

• On being meritocratic: a society in which everyone can work hard and get ahead.

• On assigning greater economic and social rewards to those jobs that are more important to society.

• On different relations to the means of production.

• On patterns of inequality.

What did Marx believe would happen as capitalism progressed?

• distinct stratification

• peaceful harmony

• overthrowing the bourgeoisie.

• defeated proletariat

What did Marx believe would happen if the proletariat overthrew the bourgeoisie?

• The proletariat would derail all the social inequality

• The proletariat would ultimately derail the whole capitalist system

• The proletariat would unite

• All of the above

What is one of the central criticisms of the social-conflict understanding of stratification?

• That the inequality between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat has never ended.

• That the proletariat revolution never happened in Western Europe, or the United States.

• That the proletariat revolution never happened in Asian countries.

• That the proletariat revolution is a myth.

How did German sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf interpret Marx's understanding of stratification?

• He argued that Marx was wrong about conflict.

• He saw the conflict that Marx observed had changed in several ways that prevented revolution from happening.

• He saw the conflict that Marx observed had NOT changed in any ways.

• The bourgeoisie prevented revolution from happening.

What about the capitalist class in England makes it difficult to have a revolution?

• It has been too fragmented to serve as a single target for revolutionaries.

• Rather than having just a few capitalists against an ever increasing proletariat, we actually have more capitalists, of different kinds.

• More and more people are invested in capitalism as an economic system. It makes it difficult for workers to focus their revolutionary energies on any one group.

• Al of the above

How did worker organization prevent a revolution?

• Unions: workers can fight for higher pay, and an increased standard of living.

• unemployment insurance, and social security

• Greater legal protections for workers, like workers' compensation

• All of the above