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Max weber claimed social stratification is based on:
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Economic class, social status/prestige, and power.
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Karl marx claimed that society "reproduces the class". By this he meant that:
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Class differences are passed on from one generation to the next.
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According to the davis-moore thesis:
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More important jobs must offer enough rewards to draw talent from less important work.
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sally has 2 advance degrees, earns an average salary, and is working at a low prestige job. which concept best describes her situation?
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Low status consistency
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A caste system is a social strayification based on what?
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Based on birth
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Looking back on history and around the world today, we see that social stratification may involve differences in:
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How unequal ppl are, what resources are unequally distributed, and why a society claims ppl should be unequal.
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Social stratification refers to:
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Ranking categories of people in a hierarchy
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Def. conspicious consumption
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Buying and using products b/c of the "statement" they make about social position
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Socioeconomic status (ses)
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Composite ranking based on various dimensions dimensions of social inequality
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Def. white-collar occupatons
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Higher-prestige jobs that involve mostly mental activity
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Def. blue collar occupation
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Lower-prestige jobs that involve mostly manual labor
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Def. davis moore thesis
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Functional analysis claiming that social stratification has beneficial consequences for the operation of society.
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Def. ideology
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Cultural beleifs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality.
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Def. structural social mobility
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A shift in the social position of large numbers of people due more to changes in society itself than to individual effort
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Def. status consistency
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Degree of uniformity in a person's social standing across various dimensions of social inequality
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