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Cscc Sociology Final Exam QuestionsAnd Answers With Verified Solutions
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Stratification - ANSWER✔✔the systematic ranking of different groups of people
in a hierarchy of inequality
race, ethnicity, parental religion, or parental caste - ANSWER✔✔Characteristics
of Caste System
economically based, relatively fluid, achieved rather than ascribed -
ANSWER✔✔Characteristics of Class Society
Economic position in society, income, wealth, and occupation -
ANSWER✔✔Components that help determine class position
Ascribe Status - ANSWER✔✔social position linked to characteristics that are
socially significant but cannot generally be altered
Example: race or gender
Achieved Status - ANSWER✔✔social position linked to an individual's
acquisition of socially values credentials
Example: CEO of a business
Social Mobility - ANSWER✔✔The upward or downward status movement of
individuals or groups over time
Wealth held by the top 0.1% is rising
, Wealth held by the bottom 90% has eroded - ANSWER✔✔Trends in wealth
inequality over the past 30-40 years
if the pretax income falls beneath the threshold - ANSWER✔✔How the poverty
line is determined in the US
more negative social, economic, and educational effects -
ANSWER✔✔Characteristics of being poor in a poor area
some positions require more skill, talent, and training than others, these positions
are difficult to fill, to ensure they get filled societies may offer rewards to those
who take the steps to be able to fill those jobs - ANSWER✔✔How Functionalists
understand Stratification
an unconsciously evolved device by which societies ensure that the most important
positions are conscientiously filled by the most qualified person -
ANSWER✔✔How Functionalists understand Inequality
suggests that stratification is significant and persistent because those who have
power use it to create economic, political, or social conditions that favor them and
their children, even if the conditions are detrimental to lower classes -
ANSWER✔✔How Conflict perspectives understand stratification
dysfunctional because it keeps power concentrated in the hands of the few rather
than creating conditions of meritocracy that would give opportunity to all -
ANSWER✔✔How Conflict perspective understands inequality
World's poorest countries have the highest fertility rates - ANSWER✔✔Global
trends in fertility rates
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