Social Stratification QUIZ

The movement of a person within a social class level

• horizontal mobility

• vertical mobility

• statuses

• status

Assigned by the society on the basis of some fixed category

• Status

• achieved status

• ascribed status

• statuses

The movement of a person between social class levels or another class

• horizontal mobility

• upper class

• vertical mobility

• middle class

Individuals can change their social class in the society

• caste and closed-class system

• social class

• social status

• open class system

It refers to the assessment of our role behaviour

• class

• esteem

• prestige

• status

These are mostly professional people like lawyers, doctors, manager, owners

of small businesses, executives, etc.

• upper class

• social class

• lower class

• middle class

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

It refers to the evaluation of status

• esteem

• prestige

• differentiation

• stratification

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

• middle class

• lower class

• upper class

• social class

The act of moving from one social status to another

• social mobility

• political stratification

• social stratification

• differentiation