SYG2000 Chapter 9 Study Guide

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Social Stratification
A system by which society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.
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Caste System
A closed stratification system where people are born into their social standing and remain in it throughout their lives.
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Class System
An open stratification system based on both social factors and individual achievement.
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Meritocracy
A system in which personal effort—or merit—determines social standing.
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Status Consistency
The consistency of an individual’s rank across social categories like income, education, and occupation.
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Standard of Living
The level of wealth available to acquire material goods and comforts to maintain a particular socioeconomic lifestyle.
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Social Mobility
The ability to change positions within a social stratification system.
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Global Stratification
The unequal distribution of resources among nations.
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Income Inequality
The unequal distribution of household or individual income across the various participants in an economy.
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Poverty Line
The minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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Feminization of Poverty
A trend in which women constitute an increasing proportion of the poor.
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Davis-Moore Thesis
A thesis that argues some social stratification is a social necessity.
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Conflict Theory on Stratification
Views social stratification as benefiting the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor.
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Symbolic Interactionism on Stratification
Examines how social standing affects people’s everyday interactions and how the concept of 'social class' is constructed and maintained.
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Class

Group who shares a common social status based on factors like wealth, income, education, and occupation

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Class system

Social standing based on social factors and individual accomplishments

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Class traits

The typical behaviors, customs, and norms that define each class AKA class markers

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Conspicuous consumption

The act of buying and using products to make a statement about one’s social standing

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Downward mobility

The lowering of one’s social class

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Endogamous marriages

Marriages of people within the same social category

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Exogamous unions

Unions of spouses from different social categories

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Ideology

The cultural belief system that justifies a society’s system of stratification

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Income

The money a person makes from work or investments

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Intergenerational mobility

A difference in social class between different generations of family

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Intragenerational mobility

Changes in a person’s social mobility over the course of their lifetime

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Primogeniture

A law stating that all property passes to the firstborn son

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Socioeconomic status (SES)

An individual’s level of wealth, power, and prestige

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Structural mobility

A societal change that enables a whole group of people to move up or down the class ladder

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Wealth

The value of money and assets a person has from ; inheritance or salary.

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Closed system

A system of stratification that accommodates little change in social position

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Open system

A system of stratification, based on achievement, allowing some movement and interaction between layers and classes

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