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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

societies with no social stratification

What was the result of Karl Marx's vision of an egalitarian society?

What three results came from Sweden and Denmark developing social democracies

The theoretical perspective that assumes stratification is necessary to induce people with special intelligence, knowledge, and skills to enter the most important occupations. For this reason, stratification is necessary and inevitable.

Theoretical perspective that Stratification results from a lack of opportunity and from discrimination and prejudice against the poor, women, and people of color. It is neither necessary nor inevitable

Theoretical perspective that stratification affects people's beliefs, lifestyles, daily interaction, and conceptions of themselves.

select the major assumptions of functionalist explanation of stratification

Select the problems that other theorists pointed out in the Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore's assumptions

term for a set of beliefs that supports the status quo

An awareness of one's social class membership, the structural reasons for it, and the needs arising from such membership

What are the key assumptions of the conflict theory's explanation of stratification?

Functionalist theory assumes that the various structures and processes in society exist because they serve important functions for society's stability and continuity.

Failure to possess class consciousness

Which sociologist is being referenced when explaining in text- conflict theory is emphasizing ideology

Symbolic Interactionism does not try to explain why we have stratification, rather, it examines differences that stratification makes for people's lifestyles and their interaction with other people

When we classify people according to one or more criteria such as their occupation, education, and/or income

When We ask people what class they think they're in

Why do sociologists favor objective measures of social class?

a measure based on occupation, education, and income favored by functionalist sociologists as an indicator of social class position

There is a disagreement between functionalist theorists and conflict theorists on which objective measures to use.

What measures of social class do functionalist sociologists use

Although still objective, what are other measures of social class that conflict sociologists prefer

This American class structure Consists of about 5% of the U.S. population and includes households with annual incomes of at least $250,000. Have “old” money that has been in their families for generations

Term for American class structure meaning to have “new” money acquired through hard work, lucky investments, and/or athletic prowess.

Includes the approximately 45% of all households whose annualincomes range from about $63,000 to just under $250,000

Typically have college degrees and, very often, graduate or professional degrees• Live in the suburbs or in fairly expensive urban areas• Are bankers, lawyers, engineers, corporate managers, and financial advisers, among other occupations

Typically work in white-collar jobs as nurses, teachers, and the like• Many have college degrees, usually from the less prestigious colleges, but many also have 2-year degrees or only a high

Annual incomes between about $25,000 and $63,000 and constitute about 30% of all U.S. households. Generally work in blue-collar jobs such as factory work, construction, restaurant serving, and less skilled clerical positions Typically do not have 4-year college degrees; some do not have high school degree

Have household incomes under about $25,000; constitute about20% of all U.S. households Many lack high school degrees, and are unemployed or employedonly part time in semiskilled or unskilled jobs When they do work, they work in such jobs as janitors, housecleaners, migrant laborers, and shoe shiner

Vertical mobility from one generation to the next within the same family.

Vertical Mobility within a person's own lifetime

What is a key vehicle of upward mobility

Regardless of the socioeconomic status of our parents, how are we much more likely to end up in high paying jobs

Fine motor skills that should be mastered by 3 years of age include;

How is the poverty line calculated?

Term for The extent of the economic difference between the rich and the poor in a society

Because most societies are stratified, there will always be some people who are richer or poorer than others.