The geographical separation of the poor from the rest of the population (page 210)
What is residential segregation?
100
The three P's of class
What are power, prestige, and property?
100
The system of segregation of racial and ethnic groups that was legal in South Africa between 1948 and 1991 (page 189)
What is apartheid?
100
A social system with very little opportunity to move from one class to another (page 203)
What is a closed system?
100
Theory that argues class is constructed from everyday social interactions.
What is symbolic interactionism?
200
An objective measure of poverty, defined by the inability to meet minimal standards for food, shelter, clothing, or health care (page 204)
What is absolute deprivation?
200
Composed primarily of "white collar" workers with a broad range of incomes; they constitute about 30 percent of the U.S. population white collar a description characterizing workers and skilled laborers in technical and lower-management jobs (page 191)
What is the middle class?
200
A form of social stratification in which status is determined by one’s family history and background and cannot be changed (page 188)
What is a caste system?
200
Movement between social classes that occurs from one generation to the next (page 203)
What is intergenerational mobility?
200
Theory that cllass involves wealth, power, and prestige.
What is Weberian theory?
300
Antrenched attitudes that can develop among poor communities and lead the poor to accept their fate rather than attempt to improve their lot (page 209)
What is the culture of poverty?
300
A measure of an individual’s place within a social class system; often used interchangeably with "class" (page 189)
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
300
A system of social stratification based on a hereditary nobility who were responsible for and served by a lower stratum of forced laborers called serfs (page 194)
What is the feudal system?
300
The occupational movement of individuals or groups within a social class (page 203)
What is horizontal social mobility?
300
The tastes, habits, expectations, skills, knowledge, and other cultural dispositions that help us gain advantages in society (page 197)
What is cultural capital?
400
A relative measure of poverty based on the standard of living in a particular society (page 204)
What is relative deprivation?
400
The tendency of social classes to remain relatively stable as social class status is passed down from one generation to the next (page 196)
What is social reproduction?
400
a system in which rewards are distributed based on merit (page 213)
What is a meritocracy?
400
The movement between social classes that occurs during the course of an individual’s lifetime (page 203)
What is intragenerational mobility?
400
Theory that holds that social stratification is a system of rewards that is unequally distributed among various roles.
What is structural functionalism?
500
The poorest Americans who are chronically unemployed and may depend on public or private assistance; they constitute about 5 percent of the U.S. population (page 191)
What is the underclass?
500
A largely self-sustaining group of the wealthiest people in a class system; in the United States, they constitute about 1 percent of the population and possess most of the wealth of the country (page 190)
What is the upper class?
500
The most extreme form of social stratification, based on the legal ownership of people (page 187)
What is slavery?
500
Marrying "up" in the social class hierarchy (page 205)
What is hypergamy?
500
Theorist concerned about the new kind of social inequality that was emerging between the owners and the workers