Social Stratification & Social Inequality

Match the following

• Slavery

• The most extreme form of social stratification, based on the ownership of people.

• Social class

• Social stratification determined by one's family history and background, cannot be changed.

• Social Stratification

• The unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of a society.

• Social Inequality

• The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy.

• Caste System

• Social stratification based on access to such resources as wealth, property, power and prestige.

(a)   is a concept that identifies how different categories of inequality (race, class, gender, etc.) cross over to shape the lives of individuals & groups.

• Intersectionality
• Socioeconomic Status
• Social class
• Status inconsistency

(a)   is a measure of an individual's place within a social class system; it's often used interchangeably with "class".

• Socioeconomic Status
• Apartheid
• Social Stratification
• Wealth

German sociologist Max Weber believed that upper-class status could be achieved by having power, by accumulating wealth, or through ________, which is the social honor granted to people because of their membership in certain groups.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) The Upper Class

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(b) The Middle Class

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(c) The Working Class

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(d) The Underclass

• Investors, heirs, executives, some celebrities

• Typical household income of $15,000

• Semiskilled labor, service, manual, and clerical jobs

• High School degrees

• Typical household income of $40,000

• Typical household income of $2 million

• 12% of the population

• 1% of the population

• Often part-time labor

• Typical household income of $70,000

• Semi-professionals, lower-level managers, white collar & highly skilled blue collar jobs

• Two and four year college degrees

A black man in the U.S. was convicted of a felony when he was 17. He is now 58 and has not committed any more crimes since his release. However, he is still not permitted to vote. Michelle Alexander would describe this as an example of ....

• everyday class consciousness

• status inconsistency

• the underclass

• the new Jim Crow

The upper class makes up just 1% of the U.S. population, but its total net worth is greater than that of ___ percent of the rest of the population.

• 10

• 53

• 90

• 99

Catholic saint Mother Teresa was a person with tremendous power and prestige yet she was very poor. Mother Teresa is an example of which of the following?

• status inequality

• status inconsistency

• status contradiction

• status reversal

According to Karl Marx, the founder of conflict theory, what social relations matter most in a capitalist system (like ours)?

• family & kin

• community bonds

• economic relations

• nationalistic bonds

(a)   involves the tastes, habits, & expectations that children "inherit" or learn from their parents and help them achieve material success in life.

• Cultural capital
• Ideology
• Social welfare
• Education