Chap 10. Social Stratification Flashcards
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Is a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy, so that some people have more money, power, and prestige than others.
Social Stratification
A person’s social position is determined by their family or ancestry at birth, not by personal abilities or achievements.
Caste System
A change in
position within
the social
hierarchy
Social mobility
Social stratification based
on ascription,or birth
Caste System
Social stratification based
on both birth and individual achievement
Class System
Social stratification based
on both birth and individual achievement
Meritocracy
Cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality.
ideology
A shift in the
social position of large numbers of people due more to changes in society itself, than to individual efforts.
Structural Social mobility
The degree of
uniformity in a person’s social standing across
various dimensions ofsocial inequality
Status consistency
What two countries were at first in the Middle Ages caste system and today’s days are class system?
The United Kindgom and Japan
What two countries do their efforts to reduced economic inequality but, instead increased it?
Soviet Union and China
An example of a country that is castle system is ?
India
Ascription=
Birth
Individual achievement=
Meritocracy
The functional
analysis claiming that social stratification has
beneficial consequences for the operation of
society.
Davis-Moore Thesis
What are the 3 Theories of Social Stratification?
- Structural-functional approach
- Social-conflict approach
- Symbolic-interaction approach
Social stratification benefits society by ensuring that important jobs are filled by the most talented and motivated individuals.
Davis-Moore Theory
Inequality rises with technological development in agrarian societies but declines in industrial societies as they embrace greater equality.
The Kuznets Curve
Buying and using products because of the “statement” they make about social position
conspicuous consumption
a composite ranking based on various
dimensions of social inequality.
socioeconomic status (SES)
higher prestige jobs that involve mostly mental activity
white-collar occupations
lower - prestige jobs that involve mostly manual labor
blue-collar occupations
Theory that focuses on a micro-level analysis on how individuals and small groups, explains that we size up people by looking for clues to their social standing.
Symbolic-interaction approach
Theory that points to ways social stratification helps society operate and serves as function in society.
structural-functional approach
