Social Stratification
Caste and Class Systems
Ideology: Supporting Stratification
Poverty
Miscelaneous
100
A system by which a society ranks categories of people in hierarchy
What is social stratification
100

 A way to view systems of stratification; one that permits mobility

What is Open System?

100

These functionalists believed stratification ensured the best and most talented people fill and are rewarded for the most important occupations within society. 

What is Kingsley Davis and Moore (1945)?  

100
The poor are lazy. 

What is a myth about poverty; most work low paying jobs.

100

Locales characterized by poor access to healthy and affordable foods.

What is food deserts? 

200
A position linked to a person's acquisition of socially valued credentials or skills.

What is achieved status? 

200
This system is closed because birth alone determines a person's entire future, allowing little to no social mobility based on individual effort.
What is Caste System
200
The perspective that suggests significant and persistent stratification exists because those who have power use it to create economic, political, and social conditions that favor them and and their children; even if these conditions are detrimental to the lower class. 

What is conflict theory (influenced by Karl Marx)? 

200

Working a job that does not use full use of one's skills or working part-time when you want to work full-time. 

What under-employed?

200

Estimated as 1/3 the families budget in 1960's.

What is food?  Did not take into account rising housing costs. 

300

On open system of stratification based on economics that allows one to change their socioeconomic status.

What is social class? 

300

A social system, society, or political system in which personal success is based on the indivdiuals's abilities and talents and effort. 

What is meritocracy?

300

BONUS

What is +300 points!

300

A critical gap in in employer benefits; particularly in low-wage and part-time jobs. 

What health insurance/health access? 

300

Uneducated or poorly educated students pass into adulthood without basic skills.

What is illiteracy?

400

Social position linked to characteristics that are socially significant but cannot generally be altered (such as race). One is born with it. 

What is ascribed status? 

400

Ability to exercise influence on political institutions and political actors to realize personal or groups interests. 

What is political voice? 

400

A perspective focusing on the material goods that signify social class

What is symbolic interactionism?

400

The dollar amount set by the government as a minimum dollar amount to meet basic needs. 

What is poverty line? 

400

Thrifty food basket x 3 times; plus size and composition of the family

What is calculation of poverty threshold (established in 1955)?

500

A high degree of disparity in income, wealth, power, prestige, and other resources. 

What is social inequality? 

500
Social stratification based on both birth and individual achievement
What is Class System
500

He identified ways institutions benefited from the poor, such as need for prison guards, non-profits helping the poor, owners of welfare motels, and products that would go unused.  

Who was Herbert Gan? 

500
Lower-prestige jobs that involve mostly manual labor
What is Blue-collar occupations
500

Neighborhoods tracts featuring 20% of or more households in poverty.

What is poverty areas as defined by US Census Bureau?