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Meritocracy is described as an ideal because no society has ever based standing entirely on:Read the answer and worked solution →How consistent a person's rank is across income, job and education is called status:Read the answer and worked solution →Caste systems show high status consistency because people cannot:Read the answer and worked solution →In a class system, low status consistency goes together with more:Read the answer and worked solution →Moving from a lower to a higher socioeconomic class is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Moving from a higher class to a lower one is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Change in a family's class standing between parents and children is:Read the answer and worked solution →Change in one person's class standing over their own lifetime is:Read the answer and worked solution →When social change lifts or lowers a whole group at once, that is:Read the answer and worked solution →Upper class members hold power over their own lives and over the lives of:Read the answer and worked solution →The middle class controls its own life but generally not:Read the answer and worked solution →Because incomes within it vary widely, the middle class is split into:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the stratification termsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the closed systemsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the class gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the sociology wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Open or closedRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the class ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Stratification bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Learning the ways of one's culture, from helpless infant to skilled person, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Socialisation is defined as the process by which we learn to become:Read the answer and worked solution →The case of the wolf-children of Midnapore is cited to show the need for:Read the answer and worked solution →Which behaviour was reported of the wolf-children of Midnapore?Read the answer and worked solution →Secondary socialisation continues over:Read the answer and worked solution →A hungry newborn keeps crying until fed. This shows that socialisation is not:Read the answer and worked solution →The birth of a child changes the lives of its caregivers, who:Read the answer and worked solution →In which family type may grandparents, uncles or cousins matter more than parents?Read the answer and worked solution →In most traditional societies, what largely fixes a person's social position for life?Read the answer and worked solution →Peer groups are friendship groups of children of:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Meritocracy is described as an ideal because no society has ever based standing entirely on:

  1. Merit
  2. Metal
  3. Median
  4. Method
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Correct answer: A. Merit

1. Background always plays a part. 2. The pure version does not exist. 3. So no society is based entirely on merit. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 9, Social Stratification._

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How consistent a person's rank is across income, job and education is called status:

  1. Conservancy
  2. Consistency
  3. Consultancy
  4. Constituency
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Correct answer: B. Consistency

1. All three might line up or clash. 2. The measure captures that agreement. 3. It is status consistency. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 9, Social Stratification._

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Caste systems show high status consistency because people cannot:

  1. Move stock
  2. Move crops
  3. Move class
  4. Move house
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Correct answer: C. Move class

1. Birth fixes the rank for life. 2. Every marker stays in line. 3. They cannot move class. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 9, Social Stratification._

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