SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ascribed Status, System 6, Endogamy

• School: ASU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

You should be familiar with the following terms and concepts, and be able to apply them to examples: Social stratification is the structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuate unequal economic rewards and power. A system by which a society ranks categories of people into a hierarchy. Its universal, persists over generation, and involves inequality in belief system: what are the 4 major dimensions of stratification, slavery- most extreme form of legalized social inequality. Occupation, endogamy (dating individuals that rage among ones social class: upper with. It is an ascribed status; at birth children inherit their parent"s position. How positions are given at birth have to do with: uppers, lower with lowers), social life restricted (no socialization is permitted), and dogma (parents pick who one marries) Imprecisely defined one can move from one stratum or level of society to another (unlike the other three stratification systems) Are also marked by unequal distribution of wealth and power.