Sociology Chpt 6

Term for Rankings of people based on wealth and other resources a society values

• social stratification

• vertical mobility

• class system

• prestige

Term for Movement up or down through a society's stratification system

• vertical mobility

• Climbing the ladder

• Social mobility

• Ascending the hierarchy

Term for a stratification system characterized by control of land and was common in Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages; The landed gentry or nobility and the peasantry or serfs is how the people were labeled

• estate systems

• Monarchies

• Tribalism

The term for stratification system based on rigid placement at birth into unequal groups based on one's parent's status, with no chance of moving out of these groups. Best known example was used in India.

• caste system

• Hierarchy

• class

Many observers believe a caste system existed in the U.S. South until the civil rights movement ended legal racial segregation.

• True

• False

a system of stratification containing unequal groups but with a relatively high degree of social mobility; A person is born into a social ranking but can move up or down from it much more easily

• Class system

• estate system

• caste system

Which sociologist thought wealth(class), power, and prestige matter when discussing the dimensions of stratification. This Person disagreed with Karl Marx's view.

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

• Wilber Moore

Weber said that although wealth, power, and prestige usually go hand-in-hand, they do not always overlap.

• true

• false

societies with no social stratification

• classless society

• caste system

• estate system

• class system

Match the following Max Weber's terms of dimensions of stratification

• the ability to influence others to do one's bidding even if they don't want to

• power

• total value of an individual or family,including income, stocks, bonds, real estate and other asset

• wealth

• The status and esteem people hold in the eyes of others

• prestige