Definitions of social stratification
This is a system which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.
What is social stratification?
They rely on inherited wealth or ownership of businesses for wealth.
What is the upper-upper class?
This is a productive system based on service work/high technology.
What is the Post-industrial economy?
This is a relatively coherent set of interrelated beliefs about society and people in it.
What is ideology?
This involves change in one’s position within the social hierarchy.
What is social mobility?
Social stratification is not simply a reflection of individual differences, but it is this.
What is a trait of society?
Higher income allows families in this class to accumulate a comfortable house in a fairly expensive area, several automobiles, and some investments.
What is upper middle?
Jobs-in fast-food restaurants or large discount stores that offer low wages.
What is the service economy?
This view argues that people are independent players on the sociological scene who achieve and fail on their own.
What is liberal ideology?
This involves change in one's social position during a lifetime.
What is intragenerational social mobility?
Social stratification involves ________from generation to generation.
What is carries over?
This social class have less prestigious white-collar occupations or highly skilled blue-collar jobs.
What is the average-middle class?
This trend involved an increase in low paying jobs and precarious work that has pushed people out of the middle class.
What is stalled or worsening wages for workers?
This perspectives critiques and challenges the justice of dominant ideology.
What is counter ideology?
This involves a change of social position of children vs their parents.
What is intergenerational social mobility?
Ranking categories of people in a social hierarchy, based on birth and individual achievement.
What is social class?
This social class work in lower skilled blue collar (proletariat) or high level service economy.
Who are the working class?
This social class rely on earnings or stock options rather than inherited wealth.
Who are the lower-uppers?
This involves non-coercive methods of maintaining power used by dominant class.
What is hegemony?
These allow for little change in social position.
What are closed systems?
Social stratification is _________in that it is found everywhere, and the extent of inequality ______ from one society to another.
What is universal, variable?
This group work in the service economy that provide minimal wages and little satisfaction or on government assistance.
Who are the working poor?
This social group has seen their wages decrease between 1980 and 2020.
Who are the bottom 1/5 of income earners?
This refers to social stratification based on personal achievement.
What is a meritocracy?
These permit more social mobility.
What are open systems?