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SOS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSStatus - Answer-The standing allowed by society.
Ascribed Status - Answer-Social status a person is assigned at birth, or assumed
involuntarily later in life. It is neither chosen nor earned.
Factors: age, race, sex, appearance
Social Class - Answer-A set of concepts, centred on models of social stratification, in
which groups of people are put into a hierarchy. This is based on power, privilege and
wealth.
Achieved Status - Answer-Social position that's taken on voluntarily that reflects both
personal ability and merit. It is a position that is earned.
Classes - Answer-Upper class: inherited wealth, or those who become wealth
Middle class: 3 distinct sub-classes
3. Lower middle class
2. Central middle class
1. Upper middle class
Working class: blue collar workers
Underclass: poverty
Stratification - Answer-The relative social position of a person in a given social group,
category, geographical reign or other social unit.
Concept
• groups based in socio-economic conditions
• inequalities
- economic, social, political and ideological dimensions.
Social mobility - Answer-Term used to describe the movement up or down the social
hierarchy between the levels of a stratification system.
Open society - Answer-Social mobility is possible
Closed society - Answer-Social mobility is not possible
Is Australia an open or closed society? - Answer-OPEN
country where rapid SM is possible, all that's needed is hard work and determination.
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