7-Social Stratification & Inequality

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Stratification

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A system b y which society ranks its members in a heirarchy.

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Stratified Society

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One in which there is an unequal distribution of society's rewards and people are arrnaged heirarchially into layers according to how much of society's rewards they posses.

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List the 5 forms of stratification.

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1. Slavery
2. Estate system
3. Indentured Servant
4. Caste System
5. Class System

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Slavery

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A systems of stratification in which one person owns another , as property & exploits their labor for economic gain.

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List 4 causes of slavery.

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Debt
Crime
Prisoners of War
Belif of inherent Superiority

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Estate System

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An ancient stratification system composed of 3 tiers.

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Nobility

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Members had great inherited wealtha dn did little or no discenable work. Leisure pursuits.

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Clergy

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A body of religious officials.

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Commoners

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The massses, life engaged in hard physical labor, virtually no chance to move up in society.

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Indentured Servitude

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Individual who agrees to sell his or her body or labor to another for a qualified period of time. Idividula chooses to enter the agreement.

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Whatare the 3 main system of stratification that remain today.

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1, Slavery
2. Caste System
3. Class System

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Caste System

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A social system baseb on ASCRIBED STATUSES.

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Ascribed Status

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Traist or characteristics people posses as a result of their birth.

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How did India caste system originate?

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A system that originated out of thw Hindu religion, bsed on reincarnation.

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Ideology

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A set of values people devise to rationalize a particular socila custom.

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Endogamy

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Marriage within in ones own group or caste.

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Social Mobility

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Movement up or down the social hierarchy, and is a major characteristic of the class system.

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Achieved Status

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Status earned or chosenand not subject to where or to whom we were born.

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Karl Marx

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Conflict Theory
Only two classes
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat

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Max Weber

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Believed social class included power and prestige, property and wealth.

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Power

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The ability of an individual to get his/her own way, despite opposition.

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Davis & Moore

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The Functionalist Perspective
believed that stratification served important function, providing greater rewards to people willing to take more complex jobs.

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Melvin Tumin

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Disagreed with Davis and Moore. Gender and family wealth contibute to class.

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Meritocracies

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System of stratification in which positions are given according to individul merit.

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Socioeconomic Status

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Status based on education, occupation, and income.

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Upper Class

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Makes up 1 % of US population consists of thsoe with vast inherited wealth ( old money)

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New Money

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Rich people whose wealth is relatively new.

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Middle Class

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34 % of the population. People who work at professional and white collar jobs.

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Working Class

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30% of the population, blue collar jobs.

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Working Poor

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People with little or no job security, despite working two or more jobs, barely earn enough money to survive.

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Poverty Level

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People who lack the means to meet their basic needs for food, clothing and shelter.

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Feminization of Poverty

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Refers to the fact that an increasing number od female-headed householdsliving at or below the poverty level.

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William Julius Wilson

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Poverty in south and inner city due to lack of jobs.

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Oscar Lewis

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Culture of Poverty

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Culture of Poverty

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Poor peole do not learn the norms and values that can improve their circumstances, then become trapped in a repeated pattern of poverty.

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Colonialism

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Exists when a powwerful country invades a weaker country in order to exploit the resources, making it a clony,

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World System Theory

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The theroy that as societies industrialized, capitalism becomes the dominat economic system, leading fo globilaization of capitalism.

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Neo colonialism

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Tendency of tje most industrialiazed nations to exploit less developed countries politically and economically.

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Multinational Corporations

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Lareg corporations that do business in a number of different countries often exploiting them by usining therir inexpensive labor and cheap raw materials.