Sociology Chapter 8 Social Stratification

refers to all the economic resources possessed by an individual or group.

• Salary

• Wealth

• Income

• Interest

A segment of the population whose members hold similar amounts of scarce resources and share values , norms and an identifiable lifestyle

• social class

• social mobility

• social stratification

• social movement

according to Marx, they own the means of production and would be the rulers

• bourgeoisie

• bolsheviks

• proletariat

• strata

Income inequality is continues to exist in the US.

• True

• False

the ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will.

• domination

• power

• prestige

• stratification

Recognition, respect and admiration attached to social positions

• prestige

• power

• control

• a title

the absence of enough money to secure life’s necessities.

• relative poverty

• mobile poverty

• absolute poverty

• charged poverty

the creation of layers (or strata) of people who possess unequal shares of scarce resources.

• social class

• social mobility

• social stratification

• social movement

Stratification exists because some people are willing to control others in this theoretical perspective.

• functionalism

• symbolic interactionism

• conflict

• labeling

Stratification exists because people are socialized to accept the existing stratification structure.

• functionalism

• symbolic interactionism

• conflict

• labeling