SOC 101 Study Guide - Upper Class, Ascribed Status, Blue-Collar Worker

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

Document Summary

Structured rankings of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power. Castes: hereditary systems of rank, usually religiously dictated, that tend to be fixed and immobile. Estates (feudalism): required peasants to work land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other services. Class: social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence social mobility. Lower middle: not all hold college education, want to send their children (~30percent) The movement of individuals or groups from one position of a societies stratification system to another. The extent of poverty one in nine are in poverty. Globalization the worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements global stratification. Colonialism occurs when foreign power maintains political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over people for an extended period. Modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in developing nations.