ISS 215 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026
Societal Differentation - Answers Classification of individuals into social groups that are natural or
manmade
Natural - Answers Groups separated by Gender, Age, and Race, are classified under ____
characteristics
Manmade - Answers Groups separated by Religion, Culture, and Economic Class, are classified under
____ characteristic
Social Stratification - Answers A system of ranking individuals in terms of their access and possession
of valuables.
Caste System - Answers The Estate System and the Social Class system are examples of a _____.
Social Class System - Answers A _______ is determined by your Economic, Political, and Social
Attributes.
Upper Middle Class - Answers What Class is 14% of society in the Gilbert and Kahl Model?
Structure Functionalism - Answers Framework that sees society as a complex system that is an
integrated whole. Both parts and whole are interdependent and functional.
The way things appear are not actually how they are. - Answers A strong belief in Structural
Functional Perspective
Society is a Living Organism - Answers Society as an Organic Whole,
Social Organicism, Social Organism,
Society is born, grows, and dies
Law of three stages - Answers Theological Stage, Metaphysical stage, Scientific Stage
Social Darwinism - Answers Survival of the fittest, A theory that is now rejected due to the
disciminatory implications of being "biologically born elite"
Functional Imperatives - Answers Adaptation to environment, Attainable goals,
Integration, Latency (Tradition)
Analysis - Answers Description, Explanation, Prescription
Individual Mobility - Answers a change in a person's class position that occurs without any change in
the larger class structure
Group Mobility - Answers when entire social groups move in the stratification order
Structural mobility - Answers a societal change that changes the entire structure of society
Forces of production - Answers Labor, Raw Material, and Means of production
Means of Production - Answers Capital
Mode of Production - Answers way of organizing production
Party - Answers Power within an organization for its leaders to attain ideal or material advantages for
its active members
Status - Answers Social estimation of honor
Class - Answers Position of an individual in the market
Resources - Answers For a society to function, Goal Attainment needs dreams and objectives from
society as well as the ___ to achieve them
6 - Answers Number of classes in the US
1% - Answers Capitalist Class Population
Hindu Caste System - Answers Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, Untouchables.
God created people who are not equal
- glass of milk story
- murdered class couple
Davis and Moore - Answers Believed social inequality is good
-created diversification
-rewarded those who worked hard
-no society is classless
Melvin Tumin - Answers Criticized Davis and Moore
-inequality leads to unequal access to resources
-Stratification leads to status quo
-creates conflict
Societal Differentation - Answers Classification of individuals into social groups that are natural or
manmade
Natural - Answers Groups separated by Gender, Age, and Race, are classified under ____
characteristics
Manmade - Answers Groups separated by Religion, Culture, and Economic Class, are classified under
____ characteristic
Social Stratification - Answers A system of ranking individuals in terms of their access and possession
of valuables.
Caste System - Answers The Estate System and the Social Class system are examples of a _____.
Social Class System - Answers A _______ is determined by your Economic, Political, and Social
Attributes.
Upper Middle Class - Answers What Class is 14% of society in the Gilbert and Kahl Model?
Structure Functionalism - Answers Framework that sees society as a complex system that is an
integrated whole. Both parts and whole are interdependent and functional.
The way things appear are not actually how they are. - Answers A strong belief in Structural
Functional Perspective
Society is a Living Organism - Answers Society as an Organic Whole,
Social Organicism, Social Organism,
Society is born, grows, and dies
Law of three stages - Answers Theological Stage, Metaphysical stage, Scientific Stage
Social Darwinism - Answers Survival of the fittest, A theory that is now rejected due to the
disciminatory implications of being "biologically born elite"
Functional Imperatives - Answers Adaptation to environment, Attainable goals,
Integration, Latency (Tradition)
Analysis - Answers Description, Explanation, Prescription
Individual Mobility - Answers a change in a person's class position that occurs without any change in
the larger class structure
Group Mobility - Answers when entire social groups move in the stratification order
Structural mobility - Answers a societal change that changes the entire structure of society
Forces of production - Answers Labor, Raw Material, and Means of production
Means of Production - Answers Capital
Mode of Production - Answers way of organizing production
Party - Answers Power within an organization for its leaders to attain ideal or material advantages for
its active members
Status - Answers Social estimation of honor
Class - Answers Position of an individual in the market
Resources - Answers For a society to function, Goal Attainment needs dreams and objectives from
society as well as the ___ to achieve them
6 - Answers Number of classes in the US
1% - Answers Capitalist Class Population
Hindu Caste System - Answers Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, Untouchables.
God created people who are not equal
- glass of milk story
- murdered class couple
Davis and Moore - Answers Believed social inequality is good
-created diversification
-rewarded those who worked hard
-no society is classless
Melvin Tumin - Answers Criticized Davis and Moore
-inequality leads to unequal access to resources
-Stratification leads to status quo
-creates conflict
