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1
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2 ways of evaluating persons who occupy statuses

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  • esteem

- prestige

2
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Esteem

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assessment of an individuals role performance in a social position. its within statuses assessment

3
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Prestige

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level of social honour associated wirth an particular status, independent of who occupies is. between status assessment

4
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Layers of social stratification =

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inequalities

5
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Contributors to stratification groupongs

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  • education
  • occupation
  • income
6
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Income inequality are identified through a..

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summary statistic

7
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Longtidudinal purpose

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same unit, different points in times

8
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Cross-sectional purpose

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different units, same point of time

9
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Two common indexes of income inequality

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  • quintile ratio

- gini index

10
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Steps in creating the quintile ratio

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  • identify units annual income
  • rank order units income
  • create quintiles
  • calculate quintile shares
  • calculate quintile ratios
11
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Lorenz curve

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plotting actual income distribution looks like

12
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Gini index

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how far that lorenz curve is away from perfect equality (straight line)

13
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Inequality makes a ____ different between rich nations

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little

14
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Inequality makes a ____ difference within rich nations

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large

15
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Inequality makes a ____ difference between rich and poor countries

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large

16
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3 general kinds of stratification

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  • caste
  • estate
  • class
17
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Caste

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rigid categories based on birth and no mobility between castes

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Estate

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categories in Europe’s middle ages feudal system, based on ascriptive birth, limited mobility

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Class

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based on achieved criteria allowing for potentially more mobility

20
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Social class can help you ..

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make a predicted guess on type of person

21
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Two facts of life

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autonomy and constraint

22
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Conventional sociological measure/ socio-economic status (SES) is based on.

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combination of education, income, occupational prestige variable

23
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Banfields approach

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  • how distant a future you can imagine

- how much you differ your gratification in the present

24
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CORDing involves..

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exchanges with one’s environment

25
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Power

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probability you will succeed in getting environment to last as you want

26
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Location of determinants of your future

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inside you, your character created largely by socialization

27
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Location of success of your actions

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outside of you, in your power, created largely by social location through interdependence

28
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5 determinate of power

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  • how much other people value what you have to offer
  • how many such peopler there are
  • how many competitors you have
  • how willing and able are the others to acts as you want
  • how willing and able are you to actually make your potential offerings available