Sociology Final Review II

Social Stratification based on ascription, or birth

• Class System

• Caste System

• Tech Systems

Occupations that involve mostly manual labor

• White Collar

• Blue collar

• No Collar

According to Weber, this is your level of Social Prestige

• Class

• Status

• Power

South African apartheid is an example of a caste system.

• True

• False

Social Stratification is the same across all societies.

• True

• False

A form of stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit.

• Conflict

• Democracy

• Meritocracy

• Scientology

According to Functionalists what does stratification do for the survival of societies?

• Harms

• Helps

• It has no effect

According to Weber, Efficiency =

• Roboization

• Progress

• Dehumanization

Social Stratification only involves economic inequality.

• True

• False

Rules of expectations by which society guides the behavior of its members.

• Mores

• Folkways

• Norms

• Laws