LO 7.1 Compare and contrast slavery (including bonded labor), caste, estate, and class systems of social stratification. (p. 190)
LO 7.2 Contrast the views of Marx and Weber on what determines social class. (p. 198)
LO 7.3 Contrast the functionalist and conflict views of why social stratification is universal. (p. 200)
LO 7.4 Discuss the ways that elites keep themselves in power. (p. 202)
LO 7.5 Contrast social stratification in Great Britain and the former Soviet Union. (p. 204)
LO 7.6 Compare the three worlds of global stratification: the Most Industrialized Nations, the Industrializing Nations, and the Least Industrialized Nations. (p. 206)
LO 7.7 Discuss how colonialism and world system theory explain how the world’s nations became stratified. (p. 210)
LO 7.8 Know how neocolonialism, multinational corporations, and technology account for how global stratification is maintained. (p. 216)
LO 7.9 Identify strains in today’s system of global stratification. (p. 218)
LO 8.1 Explain the three components of social class—property, power, and prestige; distinguish between wealth and income; explain how property and income are distributed; and describe the democratic façade, the power elite, and status inconsistency. (p. 221)
LO 8.2 Contrast Marx’s and Weber’s models of social class. (p. 228)
LO 8.3 Summarize the consequences of social class for physical and mental health, family life, education, religion, politics, and the criminal justice system. (p. 233)
LO 8.4 Contrast the three types of social mobility, and review gender issues in research on social mobility and why social mobility brings pain. (p. 236)
LO 8.5 Explain the problems in drawing the poverty line, how poverty is related to geography, race-ethnicity, education, feminization, age, and the culture of poverty; analyze why people are poor; and discuss deferred gratification and the Horatio Alger myth. (p. 239)