Social Stratification in Foraging Societies

What does increased distance between social layers and shifts toward extremes in a population's social categories indicate?

How is the degree of social stratification often measured?

What is a key characteristic of small foraging societies regarding social inequality?

What factors primarily define social categories in foraging societies?

What term describes the process of using schemas to evaluate social roles, events, and individuals?

How is stratification among men in foraging societies primarily expressed?

Under what conditions are people most likely to rely on categorical judgments?

How are selfishness and hoarding typically discouraged in foraging societies?

What is a key characteristic of social schemas?

What is a common basis of stratification in foraging societies?

What is the effect of men spending large amounts of time alone hunting?

Which part of the brain is considered the emotional center?

Which system has more connections to the rational brain?

What is the term for a predetermined emotional orientation toward individuals or objects?

What is a component that prejudices may contain?

What might a ‘principled racist’ believe?

What key technological advancement around 1800 triggered a significant shift in societal inequality?

Which system represents the most extreme form of categorical inequality?

How did the nature of work change as a result of industrialization?

How did the distribution of people across different job categories change in the United States between 1850 and 1950?

What was a key means of exploitation under the Jim Crow system?

What is the main result of emulation in the context of categorical inequality?

What was the major impact of industrialization on the absolute economic gap?

How does adaptation reinforce categorical inequality?

What major event in the United States led to a compression in the distribution of earnings and reduced inequality?

According to Tilly, what effect do exploitation and opportunity hoarding have on categorical inequality?

What characterized the economic period roughly between 1945 and 1975 in the US?

What type of economy emerged in the 1970s that shifted the nature of work once again?

What does the text suggest about the spread of Jim Crow legislation in the South?

How did African Americans’ adaptation to the Jim Crow South manifest?

What was one key consequence of the shift to the new 'post-industrial' economy?

What was a common adaptation of white people in the Jim Crow South?

Which part of the brain is most active when perceiving a social actor?

What was a key finding in the Harris and Fiske (2006) fMRI study?

According to the research, how were African Americans viewed in the Jim Crow South by White Americans?

What is the effect of dehumanizing a group at the neural level?

What concept is described as overestimating dispositional factors when explaining behaviours?

What is the concept of group formation and boundary definition that questions a group's humanity?

What does fMRI measure to assess neural activity?

Which of the following is NOT a category used in Harris' and Fiske's (2006) study to classify social images?

What primarily categorizes ascribed characteristics in social stratification?

Which term describes the unequal distribution of people across social categories with different levels of access to resources?

What does the term 'stratum' in stratification refer to?

What best describes achieved statuses in social stratification?

Which of the following is an example of a graduated category in social stratification?

What does stratification create among social categories?

What types of resources can be subject to stratification?

What indicates the distance from the top to the bottom of a society in terms of stratification?