Social Stratification
It is members of a given society are divided into different classes
What is Social Stratification?
Social class makes up 1% of the US population, and its total net worth is greater than the net worth of the entire other 99%.
What is Upper Class?
This theorist's name MUST be pronounced correctly in a college institution
Who is Weber (Vaber)?
This measures movement within stratification system of a particular society whether it is a small town, state, or nation
What is Social Mobility
The tendency to choose romantic partners who are dissimilar to us in terms of class, race, education, religion, and other social group membership
What is Heterogomy
The classes would remain divided and social inequality would grow. Wealth would be concentrated among a small group of workers and would continue to be exploited.
What is Marx's view on social stratification
Skilled laborers that are in technical and lower management jobs, and they are small entrepreneurs that earn around 70,000 $annually
What are White Collar Workers
This person believed that a person could also accumulate wealth consisting of income and property
Who is Weber?
This is the changing of jobs within s social class
What is Horizontal Social Mobility?
the social as well as economic basis of this system of stratiļ¬cation
What is Socioeconomic Status (SES)?
It leaves us with a system of awards that are unequally distributed among various roles to perform for the maintenance and good of the whole
What are the results of social stratification?
Citizens that may hold a few steady jobs and depend on public benefits or charity to survive ($15,000)
What is the Underclass
He believed that the classes would remain divided and social inequality would grow
Who is Marx?
This is a change in the occupational, political, or religious status of a person that causes a change in their societal position
Social Inequality
What is the unequal distribution of wealth and power?
Questions about the structural inequalities that continue to produce
What does social stratification leave us questioning?
Citizens with typical occupations that include unskilled, temporary and seasonal jobs - including minimum wage jobs, housekeeping, day laborer, and migrant agricultural work while the average income is around $25,000
What is the Working Poor
This theory states that all social structures, including systems of inequality, are constructed from the building blocks of everyday interaction
What are Symbolic Interactionism and Social Stratification?
The mixture of different statuses that seem to contradict each other
What is Status Inconsistency?
This concept acknowledges that multiple dimensions of status and inequality intersect to shape who we are and how we live.
What is Intersectionality
It is necessary for a system of awards that are unequally distributed among various roles and there is a variety of roles to perform for the maintenance and good of the whole
What are Structural Functionalism and Social Stratification?