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A society ranking its people by wealth, education and power shows social:Read the answer and worked solution →An individual's place within that ranking is called their socioeconomic:Read the answer and worked solution →The word stratification is borrowed from a science that studies layers in:Read the answer and worked solution →In most societies, stratification is an economic system based on income and:Read the answer and worked solution →Sociologists distinguish how many types of stratification system?Read the answer and worked solution →Estate, slavery and caste systems are all examples of systems that are:Read the answer and worked solution →A system where people can do little to change the standing of their birth is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A caste system determines occupation, housing and choice of:Read the answer and worked solution →A system based on both social factors and individual achievement is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A hypothetical system where standing rests purely on effort and merit is:Read the answer and worked solution →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 →

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A society ranking its people by wealth, education and power shows social:

  1. Stratification
  2. Straightening
  3. Strangulation
  4. Stratosphere
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Correct answer: A. Stratification

1. People are sorted into layers. 2. Resources decide the ranking. 3. That system is social stratification. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 9, Social Stratification._

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An individual's place within that ranking is called their socioeconomic:

  1. Statement
  2. Status
  3. Statute
  4. Stature
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Correct answer: B. Status

1. It combines income, job and schooling. 2. It locates a person in the layers. 3. That is socioeconomic status. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 9, Social Stratification._

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The word stratification is borrowed from a science that studies layers in:

  1. Rock
  2. Rope
  3. Roof
  4. Rust
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Correct answer: A. Rock

1. Geologists use the same word. 2. They describe vertical layers. 3. Those layers are in rock. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e, Chapter 9, Social Stratification._

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