Sociology Quiz 2

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

Debt, Race, War, and Superiority are all causes of...?

Three Estates

Social Class - Karl Marx

According to Max Weber, Social Class is determined by...?

What perspective are Davis and Moore?

What is Davis and Moore's Explanation of Universal Stratification?

What perspective is Mosca?

What is Mosca's argument about Universal Stratification?

Examples of Soft Control

Global Stratification: Old Model

First World Countries

Second World

Third World

Global Stratification: New Model

Global Stratification: Alternative Model

A form of social stratification based primarily on the possession of money or material possessions

The ability to get your way despite the resistance of others desires

A form of social stratification in which one's status is determined by birth and is lifelong

beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements

movement up the social class ladder

A contractual system in which someone sells his or her body (services) for a specified period of time in an arrangement very close to slavery, except that it is voluntarily entere into

about the same numbers of people moving up and down the social class ladder such that on balance, the social class system shows little change

forgoing something int he present in the hope of achieving greater gains in the future

the economic and political dominance of the least industrialized nations by the most industrialized nations

a group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations

Karl Marxs term for capitalists, those who own the means to produce wealth

Monies recieved from work, wages, rent, interests, or royalties.

respect or regard

the tools, factories, land, and investment capital used to produce wealth

the stratification system of medieval Europe, consisting of three groups or estates: the nobility, clergy, and commoners

Movement up of down the social class ladder

Property and Income

The official measure of poverty. Calculated to include those whose incomes are less than three times a low-cost food budget.

Assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different form other people, that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by passing these characteristics to their children.

the position that someone occupies in society or a social group; social ranking

Economic and political connections that tie the world's countries together

Karl Marx's term for the exploited class, the people who work for those who own the means of production

a trend in US poverty whereby most poor families are headed by women

the change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next

the idea that the king's authority comes directly from God

The separation of races as was practiced in South Africa

The belief that due to limitless possibilities for succes, anyone can get ahead if he or she tries hard enough.

Capitalism (investing to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globe's dominant econimic system

Durkheim's term for a condition of society in which people become detached from the norms that usually guide their behavior.

companies that operate across many national boundaries; also called transnational corporations

The practice of marrying within one's own group

Movement up or down the social class ladder that is attributable to changes in the structure of society, not to individual efforts.

a form of social stratification in which some people own other people

the process by which one nation takes over another nation, usally for the purpose of exploiting its labor and natural resources

Erik Wright's term for a position in the class structure that generates contradictory interests.

The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige; applies to both nations and to people within a nation, society, or other group.

A form of social stratifiaction in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit

C. Wright Mill's term for the top people in US corporations, military, and politics who make the nation's major decisions

Karl Marx's term for awareness of a common identity based on one's position in the means of production.

Ranking high or low on all three dimentions of social class

Movement down the social class ladder

Karl Marx's term to refer to workers identifying with the interest of capitalists.

Ranking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others

According to Weber, a large group of people who rank closely to one another in wealth power and prestige

According to Marx, one of two groups: capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor

A large number of people with similar amounts of income and education who work at jobs that are roughly comparable in prestige.