Social Stratification | Set 1
1. ________ is large set of people regarded by themselves or others as sharing similar status with
regard to wealth, power and prestige.
2. The type of communalism characterized by a high degree of sharing and minimal social
inequality.
3. The system which involves great social inequality and the ownership of some persons by
others.
4. The system in which an individual is permanently assigned to a status based on his or her
parents' status is called.
5. This stratification system is more open.
6. The kind of stratification system which is more closed.
7. In________ societies the survival of the group is paramount and people will share their
resources to ensure that the group survives.
8. _________ is called the movement of a person from one status to another, either between
generations or within a person's adult career.
9. _______ is called the mobility brought about by changes in the stratification hierarchy for
instance as society becomes more technologically advanced.
10. Who said that in all stratified societies there are two major social groups: a ruling class and a
subject class.
11. According to _________Kingsley Davis and________ Moore stratification exists in every
known human society.
12. Who defined slave as a man whom law and custom regard as the property of another.
13. It is the extreme form of inequality in which some individuals are owned by others as their
property.
14. According to the basis of slavery is always economic because with it emerged a kind of
aristocracy which lived upon slave labour.
15. The system which is synonymous with Feudalism is called.
16. The system in which clergy, nobility and commoners functioned like three political groups.
17. The type of social system which is closely connected with the Hindu philosophy and religion,
custom and tradition .It is believed to have had a divine origin and sanction.
18. The term caste is derived from the _____word, caste meaning breed or lineage..
19. The caste stratification of the Indian society had its origin in the _______ system.
20. According to ___and____ when status is wholly predetermined so that men are born to their
lot without any hope of changing it, then the class takes the extreme form of caste.
21. According to Hindu caste system which is the major upper caste.
22. According to _____the chief criteria of domination of a caste are Economic strength,Political
power,Ritual purity and numerical strength.
23. According to Hindu caste system which caste is the lowest in the caste hierarchy.
24. According to Hindu caste system how many varnas there as part social stratification.
25. According to______ a more complex division of labour made the class more heterogeneous.
26. Who has classified classes into six types.
27. An institution in the estate system where a sum of money or some property was given to a
slave by his master is called.
28. A group of industrialists who together monopolize or gain complete control over the market
is called.
29. A process takes place when the changes that caste has and undergoing carries it beyond the
traditional ascriptive definition.
30. _______held that the differential distribution of authority leads to class formation and class
conflict.
31. ______observed that when a class system becomes closed to vertical mobility, it becomes a
caste.
32. ________ was the first one to introduce the concept of alienation into sociological theory.
33. ___________ classified the society into three strata- guardians, auxiliaries and workers.
34. Who characterized caste as a closed status group.
35. _______ held that society would rank highly and reward those who perform successfully in
terms of society's values
36. According to________in estate system inequality is not primarily economic but judicial.
37. _______categorized India under the Asiatic Mode of Production.
38. Who stated that the higher the class one belongs the lessen is the pretence because there is
less to pretend to.This is chief reason why our manners are better than other persons.
39. ________ stated property is theft.
40. Who advocated a form of guild socialism.
41. Utilitarianism is a theoretical outlook associated with the name of _______.
42. Who advocated the religious theory of the origin of caste.
43. Who gave the concept of occupational theory of caste.