Exam 9: Global Stratification

Who or what are the maquiladoras?

Match the term with the definition. 1) indentured service 2) ideology 3) jati 4) ablution 5) apartheid 6) class system 7) bourgeoisie 8) proletariat 9) class consciousness 10) false class consciousness 11) power 12) prestige 13) meritocracy 14) divine right of kings 15) culture of poverty -A) the assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor are different from those of other people, and that these factors are largely responsible for their poverty, which is perpetuated from one generation to the next B) in a caste system, a washing ritual to restore purity when members of one caste come into contact with members of another caste C) Marx's term for awareness of a common identity based on one's position as related to the means of production D) Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production E) beliefs about the way things ought to be that justify social arrangements F) a form of social stratification based primarily on the possession of money or material goods G) the ability to control others, even over their objections H) the belief that the king's authority comes directly from God I) the separation of racial and/or ethnic groups as was once practiced in South Africa J) admiration of an individual or group based on their social location or achievements K) a contractual system in which someone sells his or her services for a specified period of time in an arrangement very close to slavery; another name for bonded labor L) Marx's term to refer to workers who identify with the interests of capitalists M) Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production N) sub castes of India's five major castes that number about 3,000 O) a form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit

According to the functionalists, stratification is universal. Discuss the reasons Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore concluded that stratification is inevitable.

Great Britain was one of the first nations in which industrial capitalism developed. According to world system theory, Great Britain would be a ________ nation.

Which of the following nations fails to fit into the stratification typology of Most Industrialized Nations, Industrializing Nations, and Least Industrialized Nations?

Which American sociologist described the years of American colonial slavery when he said that "gradually the entire white South became an armed camp to keep Negroes in slavery and to kill the black rebel"?

In the estate stratification system, members of the third estate are peasants, also called serfs.

Where would someone encounter a stratification system that includes Europeans, Africans, Coloureds, and Asians?

What are the three variables that contribute most to determining one's location in a system of social stratification based on class?

Why was the divine right of kings an effective means of maintaining the class differences between nobles and peasants?

Based on the global stratification model, nations of the former Soviet Union and its former satellites in Eastern Europe are classified as ________.

One of the effective methods of control employed during the rule of monarchies was the divine right of kings. This was a method of maintaining stratification that falls under the general category of ________.

What term would Karl Marx use for today's workers who mistakenly identify with the capitalists simply because they own a few shares of stock or work as managers of large corporations?

What is the significant difference between the class system and the systems of slavery, caste, and estate?

A system of beliefs that justifies a particular social arrangement, such as slavery, is called ________.

The key to effectively maintaining social stratification involves the privileged class controlling ideas and information rather than depending on the use of force.

How does the widespread ownership of stock in corporations by Americans obscure the relationship between Marx's two social classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

According to Gerhard Lenski, what was the key to the development of stratification and class differences?

Although the system of apartheid has been abandoned in South Africa, the quality of life for Africans (blacks) and Coloureds (mixed) has not changed. Why?

In every society, from the hunting and gathering society to the postindustrial society, the most common basis for social stratification has been ________.