10 Questions
What has contributed to increasingly interpretative approaches in the analysis of society?
Linguistic and cultural turns of the mid-20th century
What has sociology gradually expanded its focus to include?
Health, economy, military, punishment, the Internet, and social capital
What has characterized the turn of the 21st century in sociology?
Rise of new analytically, mathematically, and computationally rigorous techniques
What has expanded in terms of social scientific methods?
Qualitative and quantitative techniques
What are some subjects and institutions sociology has expanded its focus to include?
The institution of medicine, social activity in the development of scientific knowledge
What is social stratification?
Social stratification refers to a society’s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power.
How are society's layers in social stratification visualized?
Society’s layers are made of people, and society’s resources are distributed unevenly throughout the layers. The people who have more resources represent the top layer of the social structure of stratification.
What perpetuates the belief that people control their own social standing?
The emphasis on self-effort perpetuates the belief that people control their own social standing.
What do sociologists recognize social stratification as?
Sociologists recognize that social stratification is a society-wide system that makes inequalities apparent.
What are sociologists interested in when it comes to social stratification?
While there are always inequalities between individuals, sociologists are interested in larger social patterns.
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