UCSP QUIZ 3

• Society is composed of different groups with different social structures, some groups are higher or lower than other groups.
• Social stratification is society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education and so on.
• Sociologists use the term social stratification to describe the system of social standing.
• The Gaddangs, Itawis, Ituweraw, Ilongots, and other ethnic minority groups are considered inferior than the others.
• Ethnicity sets segments of society apart and each group has a sense of identity.
• During the Spanish and American colonial systems in the Philippines, the colonizers perceived themselves to be occupying the upper social class than the Filipinos or the natives whom they called as Indios.
• Social stratification refers to what sociologists call it as “ institutionalized inequality” of individual or “social injustice” due to social categories.
• Social stratification is an institutionalized pattern of inequality in which social categories are ranked on the basis of their access to scarce resources.
• Social stratification is the way people are ranked and ordered in society.
• Social differentiation refers to how people can be distinguished from one another.
• Social stratification refers to the ranking of people in a society.
• In closed stratification, people cannot change their ranks while those in open social stratification, people can change their ranks.
• There are some people that are treated in another way because of the social status, power, income, prestige and among others that they hold in their society.
• The individual’s position in the social structure is called status.
• The higher or lower positions that come about through social stratifications are called statuses.
• Generally, there are three types of social stratification: open systems, closed systems, and ethnic systems.
• People belonging to one social class have similar opportunities, lifestyles, attitudes, behavior, and possibly similar socio-economic positions.
• Statuses are earned by the individual because of their talent, skills, occupation, and perseverance.
• For the anthropologists, they include ethnic system as another type of social stratification.
• You have prestige according to your status.
• People have equal chance to succeed.
• The upper class owns several cars and properties and their children may study in exclusive schools.
• For example, being the president of the Supreme Student Government of your school, you have the prestige of a president whether or not you perform and carry out well the duties and responsibilities of SSG president.
• Sociologists distinguish between two types of systems of stratification: open system and closed system.
• These statuses include degree or educational attainment, promotion, position, earned wealth, and the like.
• The class structure is an open system that encourages people to strive and achieve something.
• The upper class consists of people who have great wealth and sources of income, constituting the elite wealthy group in the society, have high reputation in terms of power and prestige, live in exclusive residential area, belong to exclusive private clubs, and may have strong political influence in the system of government.
• One person can move up or down to class through intermarriages, opportunities, or achievement.
• Prestige refers to the evaluation of status.
• Whether people do something to improve their lives or not greatly depends on them.
• Nora Aunor has moved up in the social ladder because of her beautiful voice and singing talent.
• Zobel is the chairman of Ayala Corporation, Globe Telecom, Bank of the Philippine Islands, and Integrated Microelectronics Inc.
• Statuses are not the same.
• Statuses can be ascribed or achived.
• Ascribed statuses include sex, family background, race, and ethnic heritage.
• Caste System: The caste system is regarded as a closed stratification system in which people can do little or nothing to change their social standing.
• Middle Class: The people in this class may belong to the upper-middle class which is often made up of highly educated business and professional people with high incomes, such as doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers, and CEOs.
• The Philippines does not practice the caste system.
• Lower-Middle Class: The lower-middle class is often made up of people with lower incomes, such as managers, small business owners, teachers, and secretaries.
• In the caste system, people are born and die in their caste.