Exam 9: Social Stratification

The pattern of structured inequities is called social stratification.

Class position generates different combinations of ________, which refers to the distribution of goods and services, situations, and experiences that are highly valued and beneficial.

Adherents of cultural explanations for poverty propose that the deviant cultural pattern is transmitted from higher status groups to lesser status groups.

Sociologist Edward Banfield proposed the theory that when patterns of social stratification become hardened or institutionalized, a system of layered hierarchy has been established throughout society.

Traditionally, the ________ has been viewed as the principal unit in the class system.

Identify two important implications to Patricia Collins's concept of the "matrix of domination."

University of Michigan's Panel Study of Income Dynamics, that followed 5,000 representative households for ten years, found that ________ of them were persistently poor, while the rest of them were temporarily poor.

The Jensen-Hernnstein-Murray thesis overlooks the contribution of ________ to achieve on IQ tests.

Discuss the culture-of-poverty hypothesis and the effect it has had on public attitudes and policy.

Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein argued that the economic and social hierarchies reflect a single dimension cognitive ability, as measured by IQ.

Class position has little to do with social privilege, which refers to the distribution of goods and services, situations, and experiences that are highly valued and beneficial.

Richard Hernnstein posits the formation of

All societies

The financial fortunes of most poor rise and fall with widowhood, divorce, remarriage, acquiring a job with decent pay or losing one, or other changes affecting economic status.

Social differentiation involves ranking people hierarchically.

Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore contend that a ________ is necessary for the smooth functioning of society.

Ethnicity refers to the condition of being culturally rather than physically distinctive.

________ is the form of social organization, infused throughout American society, which places men in a dominant position over women.

______ is defined on the basis of presumed common genetics, resulting in distinguishing physical characteristics.

Gender roles refer to behavior determined by an individual's biological sex.