LG 9

Question 1

describes the way in which different groups of people are places within society

Answer 1

Stratification

Question 2

refers to society’s categorization of its people

Answer 2

Social stratification

Question 3

Status is achieved through merit and effort

Answer 3

open system

Question 4

status is ascribed

Answer 4

closed system

Question 5

concerned with the unequal distribution of political power, reward, and inequalities in access to political office

Answer 5

political stratification

Question 6

the two major social group according to karl marx

Answer 6

Subject class

ruling class

Question 7

four main epochs the western deveolped

Answer 7

A. primitive communism - classless society

B. Ancient Society - master and slave

C. Feudal society - lord and serfs

D. capitalist society - capitalist wage laborers

Question 8

two approach in studying stratification

Answer 8

1. conflict theory
2. functionalist theory

Question 9

Measures the value of all the assets of worth owned by a person

Answer 9

Wealth

Question 10

Two kinds of property

Answer 10

1. Consumption property
2. Productive Property

Question 11

The ability to influence the behaviour of others with or without resistance

Answer 11

Power

Question 12

This power determines who will receive important resources and how it will be used

Answer 12

Economic power

Question 13

Influencing people the ideas they follow and perspective

Answer 13

Cultural power

Question 14

a special advantage or benefit that not everyone enjoys

Answer 14

Prestige

Question 15

types of power

Answer 15

1. economic power
2. political power
3. cultural power

Question 16

4 systems of stratification

Answer 16

1. slavery
2. estate system (feudalism)
3. caste system
4. class system

Question 17

the existence of UNEQUAL OPPORTUNITIES and rewards for different social positions

Answer 17

Social inequality

Question 18

A minority and majority group blended or mixed together to form a new group

Answer 18

Amalgamation

Question 19

members of minority group adopt the culture of majority group

Answer 19

Assimilation

Question 20

Keeping a distinct social group physically and socially separate

Answer 20

Segregation

Question 21

systematic killing of a group of people

Answer 21

Genocide

Question 22

Comprises all our knowledge, abilities, talents, skills…..

Answer 22

Human capital

Question 23

the resources available to people and entities because of their network

Answer 23

Social capital

Question 24

Refers to degree of accumulated prestige, celebrity, or honor

Answer 24

Symbolic capital

Question 25

Acknowledged that men and women are not equal and that gender affects an individual’s experience

Answer 25

Gender inequality

Question 26

a disparity in opportunity and treatment that occurs as a result of someone’s race

Answer 26

Racial inequality

Question 27

shared cultural heritage from common ancestry

Answer 27

Ethnicity

Question 28

category of people widely perceived as socially significant [physical characteristics

Answer 28

Race

Question 29

a collection of people who differ in race or color or in national, religious, or cultural origin from the dominant group of country

Answer 29

Ethnic minority

Question 30

the disadvantage for a given individual resulting from an impairment

Answer 30

Handicap

Question 31

the law that protects the person with disabilities

Answer 31

RA 7277

Question 32

driven by social changes both of the inequality within countries and the inquality between countries

Answer 32

global inequalities

Question 33

the change, shift and movement of individual or group in social position

Answer 33

Social mobility

Question 34

Types of mobility

Answer 34

1. vertical mobility
2. horizontal mobility
3. inter-generational mobility
4. intra-generational mobility

5 structural mobility