Social Stratification (Sociology Chapter 9)

Resources and rewards are distributed on the basis of ascribed statuses.

What is the poverty threshold for 2 people under 65 with no children?

What is the 2014 national poverty rate for people aged 18 to 64?

What year did India outlaw discrimination against the untouchable caste?

movement between classes; can be upward or downward

Factory workers, clerical workers, salespeople, some craft workers; 30% of population

What is the 2014 national poverty rate?

What is the poverty threshold for three people if 2 are children?

Name the lady that walked 10 1/2 miles to work in the "People like us" documentary.

Rewards that do not always reflect the social values of roles is a critique of which theory

movement within a class

What age group is most likely to live in poverty

The unequal sharing of scarce resources and social rewards

Marriage outside of your own social category

What is the most important factor in upward mobility?

The movement between or within social classes or strata is ____________.

Refers to the average number of years a person born in a particular year can expect to live

What is the poverty threshold for 4 people if 2 are children?

An example of a transfer payment:

The workers in a communist society are the _____________.

Class that is 1% of the population

on welfare; 3 percent of population

The division of society into categories, ranks, or classes

Attend college or university, business executives, professionals

What is the poverty threshold for three People if 2 are children?

status differences between generations

The owners in a communist society are the _____________.

Likelihood that individuals have of sharing in the opportunities and benefits of society

____ ____ believed class consisted of 3 factors: property, prestige, and power

____ ____defined social class in terms of who owns the means of production.