SOCY 1000 Exam 4 McCONNELL
social stratification ...ANSWER...the social ranking of individuals and groups into higher
and lower positions within a social structure according to cultural, political, or economic
criteria. ex: feudal castes, Caste System in India
class system ...ANSWER...an economically based system of stratification characterized
by relative categorization and somewhat loose social mobility. america's social structure
problem with the class system ...ANSWER...the conventional model is vague and
ambiguous; we don't know where one class begins and another ends
conventional model of the class system ...ANSWER...upper class
upper & lower middle class
working class
lower class
absolute measure of poverty ...ANSWER...divides the poor from the nonpoor by using
some fixed standard, usually the lack of money to purchase a minimum amount of food,
shelter, and clothing
calculation of the poverty line ...ANSWER...3x the cost of the crisis food basket; this is a
political opinion
income ...ANSWER...money received by a person for work in the form of a salary or
hourly wages, from transfers, from interest accrued from savings, or from dividends paid
on stocks
wealth ...ANSWER...items having economic values such as cars, works of art,
collectibles, homes and other real estate, in addition to stocks, bonds, mutual funds and
other forms of financial ownership. assets minus debts
how is the distribution of income and wealth calculated? ...ANSWER...income is lined
up from highest to lowest, divided into fifths, and how much money is flowing into each
quintile is found
, relative approach to poverty ...ANSWER...holds that people are poor if they have
significantly less income and wealth than the average person in society
reference group ...ANSWER...groups from which the individuals within them receive
their values and the norms which they follow; individuals develop expectations about
what they can attain by observing reference groups
relative deprivation ...ANSWER...the perception that one is worse off relative to those
with whom one compares oneself
functional importance ...ANSWER...some jobs meet more of society's needs, therefore
they tend to pay more
scarcity of personnel ...ANSWER...talented people able to fulfill functionally important
jobs are rare
true ...ANSWER...T/F: social stratification is a system of motivation
how is social stratification a system of motivation? ...ANSWER...money and other
rewards are attached to the most functionally important jobs to motivate scarce talent to
do these jobs. scarce talent makes up the upper class.
the culture of poverty ...ANSWER...the assumption that the values and behaviors of the
poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely
responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by
passing these characteristics to their children
do the poor participate in civic organizations? ...ANSWER...no; "they have a critical
attitude towards some of the basic institutions of the dominant classes...and cynicism
which extends even to the church"
is the family unit organized in the culture of poverty? ...ANSWER...no; "...we find poor
housing conditions, crowding, gregariousness, but above all a minimum of organization
beyond the level of the nuclear and extended family"
what are the family units like in the culture of poverty? ...ANSWER..."the major
traits...are the absence of childhood as a specially prolonged and protected stage in the
life cycle, early inititation to sex, free unions or consensual marriages, a relatively high
incidence of the abandonment of wives and children"
what is the major characteristic of the culture of poverty? ...ANSWER..."...a strong
feeling of marginality, of helplessness, and of inferiority."
no ...ANSWER...are poverty and the culture of poverty the same?
social stratification ...ANSWER...the social ranking of individuals and groups into higher
and lower positions within a social structure according to cultural, political, or economic
criteria. ex: feudal castes, Caste System in India
class system ...ANSWER...an economically based system of stratification characterized
by relative categorization and somewhat loose social mobility. america's social structure
problem with the class system ...ANSWER...the conventional model is vague and
ambiguous; we don't know where one class begins and another ends
conventional model of the class system ...ANSWER...upper class
upper & lower middle class
working class
lower class
absolute measure of poverty ...ANSWER...divides the poor from the nonpoor by using
some fixed standard, usually the lack of money to purchase a minimum amount of food,
shelter, and clothing
calculation of the poverty line ...ANSWER...3x the cost of the crisis food basket; this is a
political opinion
income ...ANSWER...money received by a person for work in the form of a salary or
hourly wages, from transfers, from interest accrued from savings, or from dividends paid
on stocks
wealth ...ANSWER...items having economic values such as cars, works of art,
collectibles, homes and other real estate, in addition to stocks, bonds, mutual funds and
other forms of financial ownership. assets minus debts
how is the distribution of income and wealth calculated? ...ANSWER...income is lined
up from highest to lowest, divided into fifths, and how much money is flowing into each
quintile is found
, relative approach to poverty ...ANSWER...holds that people are poor if they have
significantly less income and wealth than the average person in society
reference group ...ANSWER...groups from which the individuals within them receive
their values and the norms which they follow; individuals develop expectations about
what they can attain by observing reference groups
relative deprivation ...ANSWER...the perception that one is worse off relative to those
with whom one compares oneself
functional importance ...ANSWER...some jobs meet more of society's needs, therefore
they tend to pay more
scarcity of personnel ...ANSWER...talented people able to fulfill functionally important
jobs are rare
true ...ANSWER...T/F: social stratification is a system of motivation
how is social stratification a system of motivation? ...ANSWER...money and other
rewards are attached to the most functionally important jobs to motivate scarce talent to
do these jobs. scarce talent makes up the upper class.
the culture of poverty ...ANSWER...the assumption that the values and behaviors of the
poor make them fundamentally different from other people, that these factors are largely
responsible for their poverty, and that parents perpetuate poverty across generations by
passing these characteristics to their children
do the poor participate in civic organizations? ...ANSWER...no; "they have a critical
attitude towards some of the basic institutions of the dominant classes...and cynicism
which extends even to the church"
is the family unit organized in the culture of poverty? ...ANSWER...no; "...we find poor
housing conditions, crowding, gregariousness, but above all a minimum of organization
beyond the level of the nuclear and extended family"
what are the family units like in the culture of poverty? ...ANSWER..."the major
traits...are the absence of childhood as a specially prolonged and protected stage in the
life cycle, early inititation to sex, free unions or consensual marriages, a relatively high
incidence of the abandonment of wives and children"
what is the major characteristic of the culture of poverty? ...ANSWER..."...a strong
feeling of marginality, of helplessness, and of inferiority."
no ...ANSWER...are poverty and the culture of poverty the same?
