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Sociology Question and answers already passed Sociology: Social Stratification Social stratification - correct answer system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy 4 important principles of social stratification - correct answer 1) is a trait of society, not simply a...

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Sociology: Social Stratification
Social stratification - correct answer ✔system by which a society ranks
categories of people in a hierarchy


4 important principles of social stratification - correct answer ✔1) is a trait of
society, not simply a reflection of individual differences, 2) carries over from
generation to generation, 3) is universal but variable, 4) involves not just
inequality but beliefs as well


social mobility - correct answer ✔a change in position within the social
hierarchy


caste system - correct answer ✔social stratification based on ascription or
birth ( closed system, allows little change in social position )


caste system determines direction of persons life in 4 ways - correct answer
✔1) families in each caste system perform one type of work ( except farming )
2) demands that people marry others of the same ranking 3) guides everyday
life by keeping people in the company of their "own kind" 4) rest on powerful
cultural beliefs


class system - correct answer ✔social stratification based on both birth and
individual achievement ( open system, permits much more social mobility )


meritocracy - correct answer ✔social stratification based on personal merit


status consistency - correct answer ✔degree of uniformity in a persons
social standing across various dimensions of social inequality

, Aristocratic England - correct answer ✔First estate - church leaders
Second estate - hereditary nobility
Third estate - commoners
primogeniture - required all property to pass to the oldest son or other male
relation


structural social mobility - correct answer ✔a shift in the social position of
large numbers of people due more to change in society itself than to individual
efforts


ideology - correct answer ✔cultural beliefs that justify particular social
arrangements, including patterns of inequality


Davis-moore thesis - correct answer ✔states social stratification has
beneficial consequences for the operation of a society


capitalists - correct answer ✔people who own and operate factories and
other businesses in pursuit for profit


proletarians - correct answer ✔people who sell their labor for wages


alienation - correct answer ✔the experience of isolation and misery resulting
from powerlessness


reasons of not having a marxist revolution - correct answer ✔fragmentation
of the capitalist class, a higher standard of living, more worker organizations,
greater legal protections

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