Term
|
Definition
A relatively fixed/ hierarchical arrangement in society by which group have different access to resources, power, and perceived social worth.
A system of structured social inequality. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The process by which different statuses develop in any group, organization, or society. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Opportunities that people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The social structural position groups hold relative to the economic, social, political, and cultural resources of society. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One's place in the stratification system is an ascribed status, meaning it is a quality given to an individual by circumstances of birth. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Stratification exists, but a person's placement in the class system can change according to personal achievements; class depends to some degree on achieved status, defined as status that is earned by the acquisition of resources and power, regardless of one's origins.
- more open than caste systems because position does not depend strictly on birth, and classes are less rigidly defined than castes because the divisions are blurred by those who move between one class and the next.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
(Thorstein Veblen)
Meaning the ostentatious display of goods to define one's social status.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The ownership of property and the exercise of power are monopolized by an elite who have total control over societal resources. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A socially defined position in a group or society. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Income, occupational prestige, and education are the three measures that have been found to be most significant in determing people's placement in the stratification system. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Refers to the decline of manufacturing jobs in the United states, the transformation of the economy by technological change, and the process of globalization. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| amount of money brought into a houshold from various sources during a given period. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Calculated by adding all financial assets and subtracting debts, which gives dollar amount. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
The monetary value of everything one actually owns.
Allows you to accumulate assets over generations, giving advantages to subsequent generations that they might not have had on their own. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The midpoint of all houshold incomes. Half of all housholds earn more than the median incom; half earn less. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The process by which people end up in a given position in the stratification system. Describe how factors such as class origins, educational level, and occupation produce class location. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The perception that a class structure exists along with a feeling of shared identification with others in one's class- that is, those with whom you share life chances. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Typically measures as the toal years of formal education. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
(Karl Marx)
The class consciousness of subordinate classes who had internalized the view of the dominant class. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Subjective evalutation people give to jobs. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The value others assign to people and groups. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A person's movement over time from one class to another. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A system in which one's status is based on merit or accomplishments, not other social characterictics. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Refers to belief system that suport the status quo. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Argument attributes the major causes of poverty to the absence of work values and the irresponsibility of the poor. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Refers to the large proportion of the poor who are women and children. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Includes those who are likely to be permanently unemployed and without much means of economic support. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The amount of money needed to support the basic needs of a houshold, as determined by government; below this line, one is considered officially poor. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The idea that public assistance creates dependence, discouraging people from seeking jobs. |
|
|
Term
| Temporary Assistance Of Needy Families |
|
Definition
| The new welfare policy gives block grants to states to administer their own welfare programs through the pogram. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Refers to the decline of manufacturing jobs in the United States, the transformation of the economy by technological change, and the process of globalization. |
|
|
Term
| Myth of the Model Minority |
|
Definition
includes the idea that a minority group must adopt alleged dominant group values to succeed.
Example minority stereotype if they can do it why can't you. |
|
|
Term
| Sedimentation of racial inequality |
|
Definition
| Over the course African Americans where slaves so over history they had to endure much more. They become more set in stone racial inequality. Hard to change and overcome. Relates to economy and structure. |
|
|
