SOC 200 NOVA FINAL PAPER TEST BANK FULL QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS

SOC 200 NOVA FINAL PAPER TEST BANK
FULL QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS

●● social class
Answer: a group that shares a common social status based on factors like
wealth, income, education, and occupation


●● social mobility
Answer: the ability to change positions within a social stratification
system


●● Downward mobility
Answer: a lowering of one's social class


●● upward mobility
Answer: an increase—or upward shift—in social class


●● inequality and beliefs
Answer: Social inequality is characterized by the existence of unequal
opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within
a group or society

, ●● caste system
Answer: a system in which people are born into a social standing that
they will retain their entire lives


●● class system
Answer: social standing based on social factors and individual
accomplishments


●● structural social mobility
Answer: when societal changes enable a whole group of people to move
up or down the class ladder


●● ideology
Answer: a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis
of economic or political theory and policy.


●● socioeconomic status
Answer: the social standing or class of an individual or group. It is often
measured as a combination of education, income and occupation


●● WASP
Answer: White Anglo Saxon Protestant; a person descended from N
European, usually Protestant stock, forming a group often considered the
most dominant, privileged, and influential in American society.