Social Stratification

Social Stratification refers to a society categorizing its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors such as

• income

• education

• wealth

• all of the above

Caste System is

• open and mobile

• closed and life long

• immobile and inherited status

• B and C

Class System is

• open and mobile

• Achieved status

• Property, Prestige, and power are important

• all of the above

Unite States has a

• Caste system

• Class system

• Estate System

• none of the above

Functionalists believe that stratification is a result of competition over scarce resources.

• True

• False