Social Stratification

What is Social Stratification?

• The division of society into categories, ranks, or classes.

• The unequal sharing of scarce resources and social rewards

• A social structure in which classes are determined by ascribed status.

• A social structure in which classes are determined by achieved status.

Is social stratification universal?

• No. It favors undocumented immigrants.

• Yes, and fixed.

• Yes, but variable.

• Only for the upper 1% of society.

What is a closed system?

• social position is based on your economic success.

• social position is based on an ascribed status.

• social position is based on both work and ascribed status.

• social position is based on IQ and athletic ability.

In open system, there is

• less mobility up and down

• more mobility up and down

• more mobility depending on where you were born.

• more mobility depending on your political affiliation

What is a meritocracy?

• mobility is based on gender roles.

• mobility is based on family ties.

• mobility is based on individual talent and personal merit

• mobility is based on personal merit and ethnic stereotypes.

What three things affect socioeconomic status?

• income, heredity, and occupational prestige

• income, education and heredity

• education, heredity and work ethic

• income, education and occupational prestige.

The degree of social honor attached with your position in society is

• power

• property

• popularity

• prestige

Marriage between people of different social categories is known as...

• Exogamy

• Endogamy

• Homogamy

• Edamame

A social structure in which classes are determined by achieved status is a(n)...

• Class System

• Caste System

• Social Stratification

• Conflict System

Endogamy is...

• marriage between people of the same social category

• marriage between people of different social categories.

• owners of the means of production in a capitalist society

• workers who sell their labor in exchange for wages