Quiz 4 SOCIOLOGY

What term refers to the structured ranking of people or groups by wealth, power, and social standing?

Which principle of inequality states that inequality is structural, not individual, studying why structures reproduce inequality?

Which principle of inequality states that social position is partially inherited, passed through generations?

Which principle of inequality states that all societies have inequality, though differing by basis?

Which principle of inequality states that human ideologies justify inequality?

Which system of stratification is fixed at birth, justified as destiny by religion and culture?

Which system of stratification is more open, as birth and achievement both play roles?

Which system of stratification is based purely on talent and effort, ideal of the US but never the reality?

What term refers to how evenly someone ranks in income, power, or prestige?

Which functionalist theory of stratification states that inequality is necessary for society to function?

Who’s conflict theory of stratification states that inequality is exploitation, not function?

Max Weber said that what concept refers to inequality being a combination of class, status, and power?

What combines all three aspects of Max Weber’s Multidimensional view?

Which view states that we perform class daily through fashion, speech, and habits?

What term refers to the act of spending to show status, also referred to as conspicuous spending?

What diagram shows that inequality rises during early industrialization, leveling off as societies modernize?

What term refers to what you earn?

What term refers to what you own?

What term refers to the ability to control resources or others?

What term refers to the social respect or honor one receives for the job they perform?

What concept is the pathway to class mobility?

Which birth factor is given at birth?

What factor is earned through individual success?

Within the upper class, which kind has intergenerational wealth?

Within the upper class, which class has new money, wealth generated through advancement?

Which subsect of middle class involves professionals and small business owners?

Which subsect of middle class involves teachers, nurses, office workers, people who likely have college degrees but have little savings?

Which class faces job insecurity due to automation and outsourcing, involving high effort, low reward jobs like blue-collar jobs or service workers?

Which class struggled for housing, food, and healthcare, focusing more on survival than mobility?

Which classes value achievement, witg long-terk goals?

Which classes value cooperation, focusing on survival?

What concept, coined by Annette Lareau, states that parents in the middle and upper classes place their children in talent-building opportunities in order for them to build cultural capital?

What concept states that women have a growing share of the poverty group?

What term refers to the unearned advantages from dominant group membership?

What concept refers to the act of movement up or down the class structure?

What kind of mobility happens during one lifetime?

What kind of mobility happens across generations?

What kind of mobility happens on a large-scale basis in society?

Has mobility risen in the US since the 1970s?

What kind of poverty involves a lack of basic needs?

What kind of poverty involves social exclusion, but basic survival?

What concept is based on the 1960s formula for food costs?