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SOC 202 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What is stratification? Answer: -System of structured social inequality
-Exist in all societies
What is social class? Answer: -The social structural position groups hold
relative to the economic, social, political and cultural resources of society
-determines access groups of people have to resources
What is the caste system? Answer: People are born into their social
standing
What are life changes? Answer: opportunities people have due to
belonging to a particular class
What is income? Answer: -money received during a given period
-Median income: midpoint of all household income
Occupational prestige Answer: subjective evaluation (personal opinion)
people people give jobs
Prestige Answer: value other assign to people and groups
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top 3 measures of social class Answer: 1.Job prestige
2.Education
3.income
Education Answer: There is a correlation between education and social
class
Status consistency Answer: individuals rank across social categories
(income, education)
Upper class Answer: -Owns most corporate and personal class
-inheritance
Upper middle class Answer: -High income/Social prestige
-Well-educated individuals who typically have jobs as business managers,
doctors, lawyers, accountants, and some small business owners.
middle class Answer: -wide range
-more than economic class: adopted by most American society
lower middle/working class Answer: Workers in skilled trades and lower-
income bureaucratic workers
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SOC 202 Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What is stratification? Answer: -System of structured social inequality
-Exist in all societies
What is social class? Answer: -The social structural position groups hold
relative to the economic, social, political and cultural resources of society
-determines access groups of people have to resources
What is the caste system? Answer: People are born into their social
standing
What are life changes? Answer: opportunities people have due to
belonging to a particular class
What is income? Answer: -money received during a given period
-Median income: midpoint of all household income
Occupational prestige Answer: subjective evaluation (personal opinion)
people people give jobs
Prestige Answer: value other assign to people and groups
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top 3 measures of social class Answer: 1.Job prestige
2.Education
3.income
Education Answer: There is a correlation between education and social
class
Status consistency Answer: individuals rank across social categories
(income, education)
Upper class Answer: -Owns most corporate and personal class
-inheritance
Upper middle class Answer: -High income/Social prestige
-Well-educated individuals who typically have jobs as business managers,
doctors, lawyers, accountants, and some small business owners.
middle class Answer: -wide range
-more than economic class: adopted by most American society
lower middle/working class Answer: Workers in skilled trades and lower-
income bureaucratic workers
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