Social Stratification Sociology

A situation where a person's social position has both negative and positive influences on their social status.

• social consistency

• status inconsistency

• status consistency

• social inconsistency

When we talk about socioeconomic status, which one of the followings are included?

• Income

• education

• occupational prestige

• All of the above

Not every society is strictly a caste system or a class system. Really, there's two poles on a spectrum which is referred to as:

• melting pot system

• mixed caste system

• imperfect system

• perfect system

Modern Britain is a good illustration of a ______ system of stratification. It still maintains a limited caste system of nobility as a legacy of the feudal system of estates, which survives alongside, and helps reinforce, a class system similar to what we have in the U.S.

• melting pot

• mixed

• imperfect

• perfect

Changes in position within the social hierarchy.

• horizontal mobility

• social mobility

• social stratification

• structural mobility

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

After sociology, Samantha has greater knowledge about the social class system and why it exists as it does.  Her greater awareness could be called

• class consciousness

• ascribed status

• socioeconomic status

• prestige

Having a strong knowledge about social class and awareness of one's own status is called

• conspicuous consumption

• prestige

• socioeconomic status

• class consciousness

The movement between or within social classes is known as...

• Social Mobility

• Socioeconomic Status (SES)

• Prestige

• Endogamy

Horizontal Mobility is...

• the movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank

• the movement between or within social classes.

• the movement of an individual from one social position to another of a different rank

• a standard of living that is below the minimum level considered adequate by society