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| What are primary characteristics? |
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Definition
| Characteristics that we are born with and are unchageable. Color of skin, age, ethnicity |
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| What are secondary characteristics |
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| Characteristics that we can change or achieve. Economic status, education or marital status |
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| What characteristics can be seen as primary or secondary? |
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Sexuality: because some people believe that is a choice, where some believe it is purel biological
Religion: some cultures are born into religion and it never changes. Others make a choice as an adult (Amish)
Culture you can move from one culture to the next and adapt. |
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| The system of STRUCTURED inequalities among different groups of people. It is the core component of any society. The structure responds to the differences between classes. Gender is the oldest stratification. Class is another one. Two ways to stratify groups- through primary characteristics or secondary characteristics. |
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| What are for common social systems of stratification? |
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Definition
| Slavery, Class, Estate and Caste |
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| What is the justification of stratification in the system of slavery? |
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Definition
| Slavery was based off of race. It was a legal system that was quite formal and had laws. |
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| How was the slavery stratification a reflection of economics? |
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Definition
| Based off of those who were free- and had money and those who were enslaved. Some slaves were able to save money and purchase their freedom- and before the revolution were even able to have their own slaves |
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| What was the level of mobility in the slavery system? |
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Definition
| None. It was even okay to kill a disobedient slave. :( |
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| What is the justification of stratification in the system of caste? |
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| The caste system is based primarily off of the Hindu religious system. A small part on skin color as well. It was also a structured legal system. |
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| How was caste stratification a reflection on economics? |
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Definition
| Only people of certain caste were able to have certain types of jobs. People also married within their economic and social caste |
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| What was the level of mobility within the caste system? |
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Definition
| None..at least not while they were alive. |
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Term
| What was the justification for stratification in the system of estates? |
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Definition
| The crown chose nobility to be head of the estate. It was based on fuedalism. The Big House owned the land and the farmers and peasants lived and worked the land. It was an official system defined by law and based on relationships |
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| How was the caste stratification system a reflection of economics? |
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Definition
| The weatlthy landorders were higher up on the list and the poor farmers were their subjects |
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| What was the level of mobility? |
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| Little but not impossible. The poor could join the church and become clergy. A non noble person could purchase a title. |
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Term
| What are the characteristics of class? |
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Definition
| Not official, the law does not define it and there is no legal provision that describes your class. No boundaries. Class is achieved, more of a secondary characteristic than any other type of stratification. Economically and status based. More relationship independant. |
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Term
| What is the sociological definition of class? |
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Definition
| A large group of people that share common economic resources, which strongly influence the opportunities they have to lead certain kinds of lives. |
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| What aspects of people's lives is class most connected to? |
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Term
| What is the difference between wealth and income? |
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Definition
| Wealthy people don't live off of their paychecks. If they loose their jobs tomorrow they can still live according to how they are accustomed. |
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| When generations do not move out of the class range froom their parents. No vertical mobility |
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| What is the difference between vertical and lateral mobility |
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Definition
| Vertical mobility is when you are able to achieve a higher class status. Lateral mobility is just moving to a different area (geographically) in order to achieve the same or higher status. |
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Term
| What level of analysis is functionalism? |
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| What level of analysis is Conflict Theory? |
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| What level of analysis is Symbolic Interactionalism? |
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| What assumptions do functionalists make about society? |
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Definition
| That society is organized towards maintaining order. Society is held together by a set of social institutions that have a specific function towards satisfyiing human need and that are all dependant on each other |
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| Examples of social institutions described by functionalism? |
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Definition
| Marriage and family, education, Media, economy and religion |
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Term
| What questions do functionalists ask about society? |
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Definition
| What does the organization of society look like? What are the crucial social institutions? Is society in a state of social reproduction (steady state) or social transformation (change)? Are the main institutions of the society functioning or not functioning? |
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