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Sociology Question and answers already passed Sociology: Social Classes Social Stratification - correct answer The division of society into groups arranged in a social hierarchy. Social Inequality - correct answer The unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of a s...

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Sociology: Social Classes
Social Stratification - correct answer ✔The division of society into groups
arranged in a social hierarchy.


Social Inequality - correct answer ✔The unequal distribution of wealth,
power, or prestige among members of a society.


Slavery - correct answer ✔The most extreme form of social stratification,
based on the legal ownership of people.


Social Class - correct answer ✔A system of stratification based on access to
resources such as wealth, property, power, and prestige.


Socioeconomic Status (SES) - correct answer ✔A measure of an individual's
place within a social class system; often used interchangeably with "class"


Upper Class - correct answer ✔A largely self-sustaining group of the
wealthiest people in a class system; in the US they constitute about 1 percent
of the population and possess most of the wealth of the country.


Upper-Middle Class - correct answer ✔Mostly professionals and managers,
who enjoy considerable financial stability; they constitute about 14 percent of
the U.S. population.


Castle System - correct answer ✔A form of social stratification in which
status is determined by one's family history and background and cannot be
changed.

, Apartheid - correct answer ✔The system of segregation of racial and ethnic
groups that was legal in South Africa between 1948 and 1991.


Middle Class - correct answer ✔Composed primarily of "white-collar" workers
with a broad range of incomes; they constitute about 30 percent of the US
Population


White Collar - correct answer ✔A description characterizing workers and
skilled laborers in technical and lower management jobs.


Working Class/Lower-Middle Class - correct answer ✔Mostly "blue-collar" or
service industry workers who are less likely to have a college degree; they
constitute about 30 percent of the US population.


Blue-Collar - correct answer ✔A description characterizing workers who
perform manual labor.


Working Poor - correct answer ✔Poorly educated workers who work full-time
but remain below the poverty line; they constitute about 20 percent of the US
Population.


Underclass - correct answer ✔The poorest Americans who are chronically
unemployed and may depend on public or private assistance; they constitute
about 5 percent of the US population.


Status Inconsistency - correct answer ✔A situation in which there are serious
differences between the different elements of an individual's socioeconomic
status.

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