Social Stratification
People
Social Mobility
Patterns of Ethnic Relations
100
This dimension of social class is based one's ability to control the behaviour of others
What is Power?
100
This refers to moving up through a social hierarchy
What is upward, or vertical mobility?
100
This refers to the systematic effort to destroy an entire group of people
What is genocide?
200
Karl Marx described these 2 social classes in an industrialized society
What are the proletariat and the bourgeoisie?
200
He wrote "Animal Farm" an allegorical novella that satirizes human social structures
Who is George Orwell?
200
This refers to changing careers, but not moving up or down through a social heirarchy
What is horizontal mobility?
200
This refers to the desire of a group to maintain some sense of identity separate from the dominant group
What is cultural pluralism?
300
This system has been traditionally used in Indian to form social ranks
What is the Caste System?
300
He believed that the Proletariat would revolt, overthrow the bourgeoisie and the result would be a Utopian, classless society
Who is Karl Marx?
300
This refers to the son of a plumber become a lawyer
What is inter-generational mobility?
300
The Trail of Tears or the deportation of the Acadians are both examples of this type of pattern of ethnic relations
What is population transfer?
400
This dimension of social class refers to the recognition, respect and admiration that is associated with particular social positions
What is prestige?
400
He was an American Author who wrote "rags to riches" stories and popularized the idea of the American Dream
Who is Horatio Alger?
400
These type of social structure provide for zero mobility between social classes
What are Caste Systems?
400
This term refers to the blending of minority groups into the dominant society
What is assimilation?
500
probably the biggest factor determining social status
What is wealth?
500
In North America, this group has the most challenges when it comes to changing their social position
What is the homeless?
500
This term refers to the process by which a minority group is denied equal access to the benefits of a society
What is subjugation?
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