SOCI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Stratification, Upper Class, Household Income In The United States
11 Feb 2018
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Chapter 9: social stratification in the united states. Systems of stratification: two types of systems of stratification, closed systems accommodate little change in social position. Closed stratification systems in which people can do little or nothing to change their social standing. One in which people are born into their social standing and will remain in it their whole lives: the class system. Based on both social factors and individual achievement. A class consists of a set of people who share similar status with regard to factors like wealth, income, education, and occupation. Open system; people are free to gain a different level of education or employment than their parents. Can socialize with and marry members of other classes. People have the option to form exogamous marriages, unions of spouses from different social categories. Marriage to a partner from the same social background is an endogamous union: meritocracy.
