Chapter 5

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A condition where members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power

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Social Inequality

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Refers to structured ranking of groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society

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Stratification

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A person's salary and wages

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Income

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Material assets (land, stocks, property)

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Wealth

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A stockbroker owns homes in upper Connecticut, Manhattan, and the French Riviera, and he owns a real estate management company along with a large portfolio of stocks. What is this?

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Wealth

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What status is assigned to a person at birth with no regards to their unique talents?

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Ascribed

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An 83 year old woman is placed at a small table in a dark corner of a trendy nightclub and is ignored by the staff. Her shoddy treatment is probably due to her age which is what kind of status?

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Ascribed

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What status is attained by one through their efforts?

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Achieved

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The most extreme form of legalized social inequality is what?

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Slavery

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A system of enforced servitude where people are legally owned by others is known as what?

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Slavery

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___ refers to hereditary systems of rank, usually religiously, dictated, that are relatively fixed and immobile

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Castes

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Peasants being required to work land that they leased from nobles in exchange for protection is considered as which type of stratification system

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the estate system

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a CLASS SYSTEM IS A SOCIAL RANKING BASED ON WHAT

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economic position

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What type of stratification would allow the greatest amount of movement from one stratum or label of society to another

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social classes

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Who created a 5 class model of the American class system

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Daniel Rossides

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According to Daniel Rosside's model of the class system of the US, what social class contains the smallest portion of population?

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Upper class

Front 17

Malcolm works as a clerk in the accounting department of a large law firm. In Daniel's model, Malcolm would be considered a member of the

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lower middle class

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Which of the 5 social classes outlined by Daniel is noticeably declining in size?

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working class

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Karl Marx view, social relations during any period of history depend on who controls _____

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primary mode of economic production

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__ is an economic system where the means of production are largely in private hands, and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profit.

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Capitalism

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_____ class is used by Karl Marx to refer to the capitalist class, which owns the means of production

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Bourgeoise

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Karl Marx used the term proletariat to refer to ____

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the working class

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Karl Marx view, members of each class share their own ___

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distinctive culture

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Karl Marx used " ___ ___" to refer to subjective awareness of common interest & need for collective political action to bring social change

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class consciousness

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__ __ is used by Karl Marx to refer to an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect the class's objective position.

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False consciousness

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One shortcoming of Karl Marx's work is that he failed to anticipate the extent to which political liberties and relative [prosperity could contribute to

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False consciousness

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Max Weber suggested ___,___,___ were analytically distinct components of stratification

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Class, Status, Power

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M. Weber uses the term "class" to refer to people who share a similar level of:

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Wealth & Income

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People who have the same prestige/lifestyle is a ____

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Status Group

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Every evening at a neighborhood bar, the clientele, which is construction workers, police officers, plumbers, and factory workers, watch sports events on the big screen tv and play pool. The people who hang out here are an example of:

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Class

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On a cold night a group of homeless people build a fire and gather around it. They talk about their past lives and how they cope with their current conditions. According to M. Weber, this group would constitute a:

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status group

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The owner of a professional football team can fire employees for not winning a division title, have the city build him/her a new stadium, and refuse to permit companies that compete with his/her own team to air advertisements during the games. This owner would be considered to have ___

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Power

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In M. weber's view people hold ____ distinct positions in society

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Who maintained that a person's position in a stratification system reflects some combination of their class, status, and power?

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Max Weber

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Thorstein Veblen suggested persons at the top of the social hierarchy convert wealth into conspicuous consumptions while the behavior of the lower classes is often subjected to ridicule. This views are from the ____ perspective

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Interactionist

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T. Veblen used the term _______ _____ to describe behavior of persons at the top of the social hierarchy when converting wealth.

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Conspicuous Consumption

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Which perspective would likely argue that most talented people would not go to school for many years to become physicians if they could only make as much money and gain as much respect working as street cleaners?

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Functional

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Who argues that stratification is universal and that social inequality is necessary so that people will be motivated to full functionally important positions?

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Kingsley Davis & Wilbert Moore

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Who has merged Marx's emphasis on class conflict with Weber's recognition that power is an important element of stratification?

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Rold Dahrendorf

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R. Dahrendorf suggests that among the most powerful groups in are: __________: owners of production, industrial managers, legislators, the judiciary, heads of gov. bueros & others.

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the bourgeoisie

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_____ refers to the respect/admiration that an occupation holds in society.

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Prestige

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_____ refers to the reputation that a specific person has within an occupation?

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Esteem

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_____ receive the highest scores and _____ receive the lowest score

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Physicians; Newspaper Vendors

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The federal tax policies of the last 3 decades especially in the 1980s have favored:

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the affluent

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)))) refers to a floating standard of deprivation where people at the bottom of a society, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison the nation as a whole.

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Relative poverty

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Who suggests that is it functional for society to have poor people to do society's dirty work at low wages, to provide middle class jobs for people who serve the poor, and to serve as a measuring rod of status for those with higher positions.

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Herbert Gans

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M. Weber referred to people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable experiences as:

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life chances

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___ refers to movement of individuals or groups from one position of society's stratification system to another

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Social mobility

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Inner city riots have occurred when poor people realize that their chances of climbing out of poverty are unlikely, based on the structure of our social system. Their frustration is based on their perception that they are living in a :

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closed system

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A woman works as a college professor teaching applied sociology for 25 years and decides to retire and work full time as a marriage and family therapist. This is what type of social mobility?

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Vertical mobility

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A poor inner city youth spends many hours in the neighborhood playground shooting baskets on the court and engaging in every game that he can play. His skills become outstanding, and he receives a scholarship. This is an example of:

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Intergenerational mobility

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A woman who was born and raised in a poor family begins her career as a postal clerk and later becomes a regional supervisor for the US postal service. She has experienced _____ intergenerational mobility

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Upward

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Research concerning the degree of social mobility within the occupational structure of the US indicates that occupational mobility has been common among:

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Males

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According to the Schaefer text, what level of college education serves as less of a guarantee of upward mobility than in the past?

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B.A. or B.S.

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___ employment opportunities are more limited than opportunities for ___

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Women; men

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___ are more likely than ___ to withdraw from the labor force if their skills exceed the job offered them

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Women; men

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Self-employment & entrepreneurship is easier for ___ to attain that ___

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Men; women

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___ experience lower rates of upward mobility compared to ____.

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Women; men

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___ ___ notes that modern societies tend to be urban, literate, industrial, and have sophisticated transportation and media systems, and that families in these societies are organized in the nuclear family unit rather than the extended family model.

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Wendell Bell