The sociological term for the movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another is ____

___ mobility is the social movement experienced by family members from one generation to the next.

Anything valued in a society, such as money, property, and education is called _____.

___ is the most extreme form of stratification in which some people 'own' others.

Which of the answers provided was NOT one of the primary characteristics of slavery as it was practiced in the U.S.

The U.S. State Dept. estimates that about ___ foreigners are brought to the U.S. and enslaved annually.

Vestiges of a caste system exist today in ____.

Until the 1990's, white So. Africans controlled the government, the police, and the military by enforcing ____, which is the separation of the races, a term used in So Africa.

In a caste system, marriage is ____, meaning that people are allowed to marry within their own group only.

The open stratification system based on the ownership and control of resources, as well as the type of work people do is termed ____.

___ occurs when people experience movement up or down the class structure.

Both Karl Marx and Max Weber identified ___ as an important determinant of social inequality and social change.

Marx used the term ___ for those who own the means of production - the land and capital necessary for factories and mines.

Marx used the term ___ to refer to those who must sell their labor to the owners in order to earn enough money to survive.

___ is the value of all of a person's or family's economic assets, including income, personal property, and income-producing property.

Weber defined social class using ___ as a major contributor.

Of the 2 categories of people who work for wages, Weber called the white-collar workers, public officials, and professionals the _____ class.

Weber called the class consisting of skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled workers the ___ class.

Working single mothers and their children and African Americans are over-represented among the ____ class.

The term ____ refers to those who are poor, are seldom employed, and experience long time deprivation.

The annual income for people in the underclass is in the ___ range.

___ is the term for economic gain derived from wages, salaries, income transfer (government aid) and ownership of property.

Dept. of Agriculture uses the term ___ for people whose access to adequate food is limited by lack of money and resources.

___ poverty refers to the condition in which people do not have the means to secure the most basic necessities of life.