Week 9

Question 1

Social differentiation

Answer 1

Separation of social status, rules, and divisions of labour in society

Question 2

Should social differentiation lead to social inequality?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

Fordism

Answer 3

A capitalist accumulation strategy

Question 4

What does fordism entail?

Answer 4

Mass production fur mass consumption

Question 5

Labour market segmentation

Answer 5

Separation of the labour market into sectors of good and bad jobs

Question 6

Primary labour market

Answer 6

Non-unionized, low pay, part time, temp work for females, immigrants, and radicalized workers

Question 7

Reserve army of labour

Answer 7

People willing to take precarious or part time jobstinen there is demand in the labour market and would remain unemployed for prolongériods

Question 8

Why did the Neo liberal ideology emerge?

Answer 8

To justify the changes in the economy and government as an ideological rejection of the welfare state

Question 9

What type of agenda did the Neo liberals follow

Answer 9

Economically liberal
Politically conservative

Question 10

What is class (km)

Answer 10

Refers to a a group of people with a common relation to the means of production

Question 11

Bourgeoise

Answer 11

Capital class, owner of means of production

Question 12

Petite bourgeoisie

Answer 12

Class that owns some of the meant uf production but not a sufficient amount to survive by ownership alone

Question 13

Proletariat

Answer 13

Working class. They do nut own means of production and must sell their labour power t0 survive

Question 14

Lumpenproletariat

Answer 14

Underclass. The class of dispossessed who are marginal to the production process

Question 15

What is false conscious?

Answer 15

Those who do not act according to their objective class interests

Question 16

Class in itself

Answer 16

People who share a common relationship to the means of production

Question 17

Class fur itself

Answer 17

Aware of their common interests

Question 18

Weber adopted a multidimensional approach to stratification focusing on what?

Answer 18

Interplay among wealth, prestige, and power

Question 19

What is the vertical mosaic and what did dit snow?

Answer 19

The first systematic empirical sociological analysis of class and status

Pointed out that wealth was concentrated in Canada and connected to gender and ethnicity

Question 20

What dues social inequality reflect?

Answer 20

Characteristics of society

Question 21

Social inequality is more prevalent in which society ?

Answer 21

Agricultural societies

Question 22

What does demand for labour result in?

Answer 22

Emergence of slavery

Question 23

Feudal societies

Answer 23

Caste systems → groups ascribed social status → bonded on land = don’t move

Question 24

Capitalist societies

Answer 24

Free of bondage → could sell their labour freely

Question 25

Fordism was the dominant accumulation strategy untill….

Answer 25

1970 crisis

Question 26

Why did the industrialized labor force do well in the 1970’s

Answer 26

Because of labour market segmentation

Question 27

What did neoliberals defend?

Answer 27

Globalization and austerity programs in order to be more competitive

Question 28

What did Karl Marx say about society?

Answer 28

Society is characterized by class conflict

Question 29

Conflict between which 2 groups is inevitable?

Answer 29

Bourgeoisie and proletariat

Question 30

Symbolic interactionist on stratification

Answer 30

Interested on how at was created not experienced

Question 31

Open stratification system

Answer 31

Social inequalities are achieved

Question 32

Closed stratification system

Answer 32

Little to no possibility to move up