SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Social Stratification, Primogeniture, Meritocracy

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: menning

Document Summary

Social stratification: society"s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, power. Wealth: the net value of money and assets a person has. Caste system: where people are born into their social standing and will remain in it their whole lives. Class system: based on both social factors and individual achievement. Class: consists of a set of people who share similar status with regard to factors like wealth, income, occupation, education, Exogamous marriages: unions of spouses from different social categories. Endogamous union: unions of spouses from the same social categories. Ideal system based on the belief that social stratification is the result of personal effort or merit that determines social standing. Status consistency: describe the consistency of an individual"s rank across these factors. Primogeniture: a law stating that all property is inherited by the firstborn son.