Economic Inequality

Socioeconomic Status is defined as what?

• A minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below.

• A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.

• Changes in a person’s social position within his or her adult life.

• A measure of social class that is based on income, education, and occupation.

Absolute Poverty is defined as what?

• A minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below.

• The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.

• The position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.

• Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.

Relative Poverty is defined as what?

• The movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society’s stratification system to another.

• The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.

• A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.

• The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.

Social Mobility is defined as what?

• The position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.

• The movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society’s stratification system to another.

• Changes in a person’s social position within his or her adult life.

• A measure of social class that is based on income, education, and occupation.

Open System is defined as what?

• The position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.

• Allows little or no possibility of moving up.

• The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.

• The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.

Closed System is defined as what?

• The position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.

• Changes in a person’s social position within his or her adult life.

• Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.

• Allows little or no possibility of moving up.

Horizontal Mobility is defined as what?

• A minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below.

• The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.

• The position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.

• Changes in a person’s social position within his or her adult life.

Vertical Mobility is defined as what?

• A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society, whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.

• A minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below.

• The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.

• The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.

Intergenerational Mobility is defined as what?

• Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.

• Changes in a person’s social position within his or her adult life.

• A measure of social class that is based on income, education, and occupation.

• A minimum level of subsistence that no family should be expected to live below.

Intragenerational Mobility is defined as what?

• The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.

• The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.

• Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.

• Changes in a person’s social position within his or her adult life.