UCSP/ STRATIFICATION POST TEST

It consists of the elite or wealthy families.

• lower class

• upper class

• ascribed status

• achieved status

It is one in which people are born into their social standing and will remain in it their whole lives.

• caste and closed-class system

• open class system

• middle class

• lower class

The individual’s position in the social structure

• upper class

• middle class

• status

• statuses

A society’s categorization of people into socioeconomic strata/layer, based on their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power.

• vertical mobility

• horizontal mobility

• political stratification

• social stratification

Status earned by the individual.

• status

• achieved status

• ascribed status

• statuses

The act of moving from one social status to another.

• social mobility

• political stratification

• social stratification

• differentiation

People in the social class who depend merely on their paycheck.

• middle class

• lower class

• upper class

• social class

It refers to the evaluation of status.

• esteem

• prestige

• differentiation

• stratification

The method of relating people in terms of certain social characteristics and then classifying them into social categories based on their characteristics.

• social structure

• social mobility

• differentiation

• political stratification

These are mostly professional people like lawyers, doctors, manager, owners of small businesses, executives, etc.

• upper class

• social class

• lower class

• middle class