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What is Social Stratification?
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refers to a hierarchy of relative privilege based on power, property, and prestige. Every society stratifies its members, and in every society men as a group are placed above women as a group. p186 Henslin
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What are three major systems of social strtification?
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Four Major stratification systems are slavery, caste, estate and class.pg 186-195 Henslin
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What is Slavery?
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When some people own other people. Initially, slavery was based not on race but on debt, punishment,or defeat in a battle. Slavery could be temporary or permanent, and was not nccissarily passed on to one's children. North American slaves had no legal rights, and the system was gradually buttressed by racist ideology.
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What is a Caste System?
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Status is determined by birth and is life long.
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What is a class system?
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Much more open than these other systems. It is based primarily on money or material possestions. Industrialization encourages the formation of class systems. Gender cuts across all forms of social stratification.
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Why are some nations rich and other nations poor?
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The main theories that seek to account for global stratification are colonialism, world system theory, and the culture of poverty. pg 195, 198 Henslin
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Why is social stratification uniersal?
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because functionalist kingsley davis and wilbert moore argued that to attract he most capable people o fill its imortant positions, society must offer them greater rewards if this was the case said melvin tumin society would be a meritocracy.Gaetano Mosca argued that stratification is inevitable because every society must have leadership, which by definition means inequality. onflict theorits aruge that stratification came about because resouces are limited, and an elite emerges as groups struggle for them. pg 200-202
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What is meritocracy?
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All positions awarded on the basis of merit.
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What determines social class?
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Karl Marx argued that a single factor determines social class: If you own means of production, you belong to Bourgeoisie; if you do not you are the proletariat. Max Weber argued that three elements determine social class: property, prestige, and power. pg 202-204
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What changes are occurring in social class?
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The distribution of wealth in the united states ha changed little since world war II, but the changes that have ocurred have been towrds greater inequality. People's rankings of occupational prestige are similar from country to coutry. Globally, the occupations that bring greater prestige that pay more, require more education and abstract thought and offer greater independence. pg 204-209
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What is meant by term status incnsitency?
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Status is social ranking. Most people are status consistent; that is, they rank high or low on all three dementions of social class. People who rank higher on some dementions that on others are status inconsistent. The frustrations of status inconsistency tend to produce poliical radicalism. pg 209-210.
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What six-class model portrays the socail classes?
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Khal and Gilbert developed a six-class midel based on Weber. At the top is the capitalist class. In descending order are the upper middle class, the lower middle class, the working class, he working poor, and the underclass. pg 210-215/
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How does social class affect people's life?
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Socail class leaves no aspect of life untouched. It affects our chances of benefiting from the new technology. dying early, becoming ill, receiving good health care, and getting divorced. Social class membership also affects child rearing, educational attainment, religious affiliation,political participation, and contact with the criminal justice system. pg 215-218.
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intergenerational mobility
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refers to changes in social class from one generation to the next.
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Structural Mobility
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refers to changes in society that lead large number of people to change their social class.
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Exchange Mobility
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The movement of large numbers of people from one class to another, with the net result that the relative propportions of the population in the classes remain about the same. pg 218-220
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Who are the poor?
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Poverty is unequally disrtibuted in the United States. Racial-ethnic minorities (xept asian americans) children, women -headed households, and rural americans are more likely than others to be poor. the poverty rate of the elderly is less than that of the general population. pg 220-223
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How is the horatio alger myth functional for society?
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The HA myth is the belief that anyone can get ahead if only he or she ries hard enough-encourages people to strive to get ahead. It also deflects blame for failure from society to the individual pg 224
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