soc final exam with 100% correct solutions 2024

social stratification correct answers A system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. key principle of social stratification correct answers 1. Reflects society's structure, not individual differences. 2. moves from generation to generation 3. Exists everywhere 4. Involves inequality caste based correct answers traditional societies, organized based on ascriptive statuses, orderly/unifed, unequal class based correct answers modern economics, based on achieved status, productive, hidden inequalities Intragenerational correct answers "rags to riches" Meritocracy correct answers stratification systems based on personal merit status consistency correct answers degree of uniformity in a persons social standing across various dimensions of social inequality. structural functional correct answers greater the importance of a position, more rewards a society attaches to it. social conflict correct answers social stratification causes social conflict, how to define inequality. symbolic interaction correct answers differences in social class position can affect interaction. upper class correct answers app 1% of us population, roughly 3 million people w/net worth equvialent to that of roughly 100 million people at the bottom. Middle class correct answers no clear definition, roughly 90%, owning home/sending kids to college working class correct answers roughly 1/3 of population poor correct answers about 20% of population, under class/poverty, homelessness.