Category: Social Stratification

A. class inequalities govern gender stratification
B. women’s pay is often essential to the family’s economic position
C. women’s paid work is not as significant as that of men
D. women should be seen as being the same class as their husbands/partners

A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. dramaturgical perspective

A. people share characteristics without necessarily identifying with each other
B. people’s life-chances and experiences depend heavily on their social ranking
C. the ranks of different social categories tend to change very slowly over time
D. stratification occurs because of inequalities in assets or property

A. the globalization of culture through new technologies
B. they way in which cultural products were bought and sold for profit
C. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures in society
D. they way in which industrialization had created new means of communication