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What is social stratification?

  • A system in which people are divided into different castes based on their occupation.
  • A concept used to describe structured inequalities between social groups within societies. (correct)
  • A system in which people are bought and sold as property.
  • A system in which people are divided into different social classes based on their race.

    • What are the different forms of stratification?

  • Slavery, race, estate, and class.
  • Slavery, race, estate, and gender.
  • Slavery, caste, estate, and class. (correct)
  • Slavery, caste, estate, and gender.

    • What is the embourgeoisement theory?

  • The theory that people are becoming more underclass because of decreasing affluence.
  • The theory that people are becoming more working class because of decreasing affluence.
  • The theory that people are becoming more middle class because of increasing affluence. (correct)
  • The theory that people are becoming more upper class because of increasing affluence.

    • What is social closure?

    <p>The process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the underclass?

    <p>A term used to describe people who have a significantly lower standard of living than the majority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social exclusion?

    <p>The outcome of multiple deprivations that prevent individuals or groups from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they are located.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social mobility?

    <p>The movement of individuals and groups between socioeconomic positions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social stratification?

    <p>A concept used to describe structured inequalities between social groups within societies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three basic characteristics of socially stratified systems?

    <p>Rankings apply to social categories of people who share common characteristics, people’s life experiences and opportunities depend on the relative ranking of their social category, and the ranks of social categories tend to change only slowly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the different forms of stratification?

    <p>Slavery, caste, estate, and class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Karl Marx focus on in relation to class divisions?

    <p>The economic aspect of class divisions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Max Weber argue stratification is founded on?

    <p>Economic conditions, status, and party.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many dimensions of control over economic resources did Erik Olin Wright identify in modern capitalist production?

    <p>Three</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the upper class composed of?

    <p>The more affluent members of society who have inherited wealth, own large businesses, or hold large numbers of stocks and shares.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social mobility?

    <p>The movement of individuals and groups between socioeconomic positions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social stratification?

    <p>A concept used to describe structured inequalities between social groups within societies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three basic characteristics of socially stratified systems?

    <p>Rankings apply to social categories of people who share common characteristics, people’s life experiences and opportunities depend on the relative ranking of their social category, and the ranks of social categories tend to change only slowly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the different forms of stratification?

    <p>Slavery, caste, estate, and class</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Karl Marx's focus on class divisions?

    <p>The economic aspect</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Max Weber argue stratification is founded on?

    <p>Economic conditions, status, and party</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three dimensions of control over economic resources in modern capitalist production identified by Erik Olin Wright?

    <p>Ownership, control, and skill</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who are the upper class composed of?

    <p>The more affluent members of society who have inherited wealth, own large businesses, or hold large numbers of stocks and shares</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social closure?

    <p>The process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is underclass?

    <p>A term used to describe people who have a significantly lower standard of living than the majority</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social exclusion?

    <p>The outcome of multiple deprivations that prevent individuals or groups from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they are located</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is gender in terms of social stratification?

    <p>One of the most profound examples of social stratification, and societies are structured in a way in which men are privileged over women in terms of wealth, status, and influence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social mobility?

    <p>The movement of individuals and groups between socioeconomic positions, including vertical and lateral mobility, intragenerational mobility, and intergenerational mobility</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social stratification?

    <p>A system of structured inequalities between social groups within societies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three basic characteristics of socially stratified systems?

    <p>Rankings apply to social categories, life experiences and opportunities depend on relative ranking, and ranks tend to change slowly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a form of social stratification?

    <p>Meritocracy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What characterizes the upper class?

    <p>A small minority of individuals who have both wealth and power and are able to transmit their privileges to their children</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social closure?

    <p>The process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the four forms of 'capital' that characterize class position according to Pierre Bourdieu?

    <p>Cultural, social, economic, and symbolic capital</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the most profound examples of social stratification according to the text?

    <p>Gender</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social mobility?

    <p>The movement of individuals and groups between socio-economic positions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intragenerational mobility?

    <p>How far people move up or down the social scale in the course of their working lives</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intergenerational mobility?

    <p>Mobility across generations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is downward mobility often associated with according to the text?

    <p>Psychological problems and anxieties</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some models scholars have developed to understand class according to the text?

    <p>The elite model, the precariat model, and the postmodern model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social stratification?

    <p>Structured inequalities between social groups within societies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three basic characteristics of socially stratified systems?

    <p>Rankings apply to social categories, life experiences and opportunities depend on relative ranking, and ranks tend to change slowly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the different forms of social stratification?

    <p>Slavery, caste, estate, and class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the upper class?

    <p>A small minority of individuals who have both wealth and power and are able to transmit their privileges to their children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social closure?

    <p>The process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the four forms of capital that characterize class position according to Pierre Bourdieu?

    <p>Cultural, social, economic, and symbolic capital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is gender in relation to social stratification?

    <p>One of the most profound examples of social stratification, with societies structured in a way that privileges men over women in terms of wealth, status, and influence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social mobility?

    <p>The movement of individuals and groups between socio-economic positions, with vertical mobility being the movement up or down the socio-economic scale.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intragenerational mobility?

    <p>How far people move up or down the social scale in the course of their working lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intergenerational mobility?

    <p>Mobility across generations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is downward mobility?

    <p>The process of moving down the socio-economic scale.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the different models that scholars have developed to understand class?

    <p>The elite model, the precariat model, and the postmodern model.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social stratification?

    <p>Structured inequalities between social groups within societies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three basic characteristics of socially stratified systems?

    <p>Rankings apply to social categories, life experiences and opportunities depend on relative ranking, and ranks tend to change slowly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the different forms of social stratification?

    <p>Slavery, caste, estate, and class</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the upper class?

    <p>A small minority of individuals who have both wealth and power and are able to transmit their privileges to their children</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social closure?

    <p>The process of implementing criteria to control and exclude who is allowed to join a social group</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are Pierre Bourdieu's four forms of capital that characterize class position?

    <p>Cultural, social, economic, and symbolic capital</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is gender in terms of social stratification?

    <p>Structured inequalities between social groups within societies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social mobility?

    <p>The movement of individuals and groups between socio-economic positions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intragenerational mobility?

    <p>Mobility within a single generation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intergenerational mobility?

    <p>Mobility across generations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is downward mobility?

    <p>Mobility within a single generation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some models scholars have developed to understand class?

    <p>The elite model, the precariat model, and the postmodern model</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Social Stratification, Class, and Mobility

    • Social stratification is a concept used to describe structured inequalities between social groups within societies.
    • Socially stratified systems share three basic characteristics: rankings apply to social categories of people who share common characteristics, people’s life experiences and opportunities depend on the relative ranking of their social category, and the ranks of social categories tend to change only slowly.
    • There are different forms of stratification, including slavery, caste, estate, and class. The most extreme form of stratification still exists today in the form of trafficking, and strict divisions by religion exist in countries such as India and South Africa.
    • Karl Marx focused on the economic aspect of class divisions and maintained that status distinctions are the result of class divisions, while Max Weber argued that stratification is founded on economic conditions, status, and party.
    • Erik Olin Wright developed Marxist theory to include elements of Weber’s approach, and he identified three dimensions of control over economic resources in modern capitalist production that allow us to identify major classes that exist.
    • The upper class is composed of the more affluent members of society who have inherited wealth, own large businesses, or hold large numbers of stocks and shares.
    • The middle class is a broad spectrum of people working in professional, managerial, and administrative occupations with associated norms, values, and lifestyles, and it has expanded to a huge proportion of society.
    • Social closure is the process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group.
    • The embourgeoisement theory, which states that people are becoming more middle class because of increasing affluence, has been proven wrong, but there is an intersection between the lower middle class and the upper working class.
    • Underclass is a term used to describe people who have a significantly lower standard of living than the majority, while social exclusion is the outcome of multiple deprivations that prevent individuals or groups from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they are located.
    • Gender is one of the most profound examples of social stratification, and societies are structured in a way in which men are privileged over women in terms of wealth, status, and influence.
    • Social mobility is the movement of individuals and groups between socioeconomic positions, including vertical and lateral mobility, intragenerational mobility, and intergenerational mobility.

    Social Stratification, Class, and Mobility

    • Social stratification is a concept used to describe structured inequalities between social groups within societies.
    • Socially stratified systems share three basic characteristics: rankings apply to social categories of people who share common characteristics, people’s life experiences and opportunities depend on the relative ranking of their social category, and the ranks of social categories tend to change only slowly.
    • There are different forms of stratification, including slavery, caste, estate, and class. The most extreme form of stratification still exists today in the form of trafficking, and strict divisions by religion exist in countries such as India and South Africa.
    • Karl Marx focused on the economic aspect of class divisions and maintained that status distinctions are the result of class divisions, while Max Weber argued that stratification is founded on economic conditions, status, and party.
    • Erik Olin Wright developed Marxist theory to include elements of Weber’s approach, and he identified three dimensions of control over economic resources in modern capitalist production that allow us to identify major classes that exist.
    • The upper class is composed of the more affluent members of society who have inherited wealth, own large businesses, or hold large numbers of stocks and shares.
    • The middle class is a broad spectrum of people working in professional, managerial, and administrative occupations with associated norms, values, and lifestyles, and it has expanded to a huge proportion of society.
    • Social closure is the process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group.
    • The embourgeoisement theory, which states that people are becoming more middle class because of increasing affluence, has been proven wrong, but there is an intersection between the lower middle class and the upper working class.
    • Underclass is a term used to describe people who have a significantly lower standard of living than the majority, while social exclusion is the outcome of multiple deprivations that prevent individuals or groups from participating fully in the economic, social, and political life of the society in which they are located.
    • Gender is one of the most profound examples of social stratification, and societies are structured in a way in which men are privileged over women in terms of wealth, status, and influence.
    • Social mobility is the movement of individuals and groups between socioeconomic positions, including vertical and lateral mobility, intragenerational mobility, and intergenerational mobility.

    Understanding Social Stratification: Class, Status, and Power

    • Social stratification refers to structured inequalities between social groups within societies.
    • All socially stratified systems have three basic characteristics: rankings apply to social categories, life experiences and opportunities depend on relative ranking, and ranks tend to change slowly.
    • Different forms of social stratification include slavery, caste, estate, and class.
    • The upper class consists of a small minority of individuals who have both wealth and power and are able to transmit their privileges to their children.
    • The middle class is a broad spectrum of people working in professional, managerial, and administrative occupations with associated norms, values, and lifestyles.
    • Social closure is the process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group.
    • Lifestyle choices are an important indicator of class, according to Pierre Bourdieu, who identifies four forms of "capital" that characterize class position: cultural, social, economic, and symbolic capital.
    • Gender is one of the most profound examples of social stratification, with societies structured in a way that privileges men over women in terms of wealth, status, and influence.
    • Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals and groups between socio-economic positions, with vertical mobility being the movement up or down the socio-economic scale.
    • Intragenerational mobility is how far people move up or down the social scale in the course of their working lives, while intergenerational mobility is mobility across generations.
    • Downward mobility is often associated with psychological problems and anxieties, where individuals become unable to sustain the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed.
    • Scholars have developed different models to understand class, including the elite model, the precariat model, and the postmodern model.

    Understanding Social Stratification: Class, Status, and Power

    • Social stratification refers to structured inequalities between social groups within societies.
    • All socially stratified systems have three basic characteristics: rankings apply to social categories, life experiences and opportunities depend on relative ranking, and ranks tend to change slowly.
    • Different forms of social stratification include slavery, caste, estate, and class.
    • The upper class consists of a small minority of individuals who have both wealth and power and are able to transmit their privileges to their children.
    • The middle class is a broad spectrum of people working in professional, managerial, and administrative occupations with associated norms, values, and lifestyles.
    • Social closure is the process through which social groups maintain their advantages by implementing criteria that control and exclude who is allowed to join the group.
    • Lifestyle choices are an important indicator of class, according to Pierre Bourdieu, who identifies four forms of "capital" that characterize class position: cultural, social, economic, and symbolic capital.
    • Gender is one of the most profound examples of social stratification, with societies structured in a way that privileges men over women in terms of wealth, status, and influence.
    • Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals and groups between socio-economic positions, with vertical mobility being the movement up or down the socio-economic scale.
    • Intragenerational mobility is how far people move up or down the social scale in the course of their working lives, while intergenerational mobility is mobility across generations.
    • Downward mobility is often associated with psychological problems and anxieties, where individuals become unable to sustain the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed.
    • Scholars have developed different models to understand class, including the elite model, the precariat model, and the postmodern model.

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    Test your knowledge on social stratification, class, and mobility with this quiz! From understanding the different forms of stratification to the characteristics of social classes, this quiz will challenge you to dive deeper into the complexities of social inequality. Explore the theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber, and discover Erik Olin Wright's approach to identifying major classes in modern capitalist production. Learn about social closure and the intersection between the lower middle class and the upper working class. Don't forget to test your knowledge on gender

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