SOCIOL 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Gross National Income, Population Reference Bureau, Gross Domestic Product

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Jonathan R.Wynn

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Summarized and organized from introduction to sociology 2e, on openstax. Introduction to social stratification in the united states. Why students with parents who have completed college tend to graduate more often? . [a society"s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based factors like wealth, income, race, education and power: the system of social standing. Recent economic changes and u. s. stratification: great recession. Prohibiting social relationships between levels: open systems. Allow movement and interaction between layers and classes: class systems. Closed stratification systems, in which people can do little or nothing to change their social standing. Born with role and social standing: caste systems. 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 and education. Exogamous marriage, unions of spouses from different social categories. Vs endogamous union (from same background: meritocracy.