Sociology 1000- Final Exam

Sociology 1000 with Chia at University of Missouri- Columbia

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ascribed social status

namely the categories into which one is born

(caste, clan, and estate)

achieved social status

statuses earned through individual effort facilitated by opportunity

Functional View of Stratification

Inequality is nearly universal in all societies, and it exists because it has positive functions.

-Competent people --> important positions

-Institutions for “right qualification” training (education industry)

-Meritocracy: “you get what you deserve”

Conflict View of Stratification

Karl Marx: Class Conflict

Wright's Modification of Marx

Max Weber: Class, Status and Power

Karl Marx: Class Conflict

proletariat (workers) exploited by capitalists (owners of the means of production)

He predicted workers would realize they are being exploited and eventually overthrow the capitalists, establishing a socialist society

Eventually lead to classless society- communism

Wright's Modification of Marx

nargued that changing conditions made it necessary to modify Marx’s analysis to include four classes:

-capitalists, who own large businesses employing many workers

-petty bourgeoisie, small businesses owners (small medical practice)managers, ---who sell their own labor but exercise authority over other employees (corporate executives)

-workers, who sell their labor (assembly line worker)

Max Weber: Class, Status, Power

argued there are three important dimensions to stratification: class, status, and power

-Social class - Weber saw this as a continuum instead of a dichotomy between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

-Wealth versus income (different)

-Status or social prestige is the respect and admiration accorded a social position or occupation.
-Power is the capacity to influence or control behavior of others.

status consistency

people having high status in one area have high status in other areas

-for example, rich people tend to be more highly educated and to occupy high status occupations.

Stratification and Technology: A Global Perspective

-Lenski and Lenski (1982) argued that social stratification systems vary depending on the stage of development of a society

-Nobel Prize Winning economist Simon Kuznets founds in his Kuznets Curve that inequality first increases and later declines with increasing technology

Characteristics of American Class Structure

based on six categories defined by a combination of class, status, and power.

-capitalist 1%, upper-middle 14%, lower-middle 30%, working class 30%, working poor 22%, underclass 3%

-best shape --> diamond

life styles

refer to the activities, behaviors, possessions, and other, often visible, characteristics of how an individual spends their time and money. How individuals advertise social class to others.

life chances

refer to the likelihood of realizing a certain quality of life, or the probability of experiencing certain positive or negative outcomes in life such as material goods and favorable life experiences.

social mobility

is changing one’s ranking in the stratification system.

horizontal social mobility

sons are no better off than their fathers

vertical social mobility

occurs when there is a significant increase or decrease in social standing

intergenerational social mobility

is the change in social standing of children in relation to their parents.

intragenerational social mobility

changes in social standing for a person over their lifetime.

structural mobility

mobility resulting from changes in a society's occupational structure or stratification system rather than from individual achievement: that has been made possible by the industrialization of the economy and the expansion of new white collar jobs.

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