SOC-100 Short Answers: Quiz 4

SOC-100 Short Answers Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Soc-100 Short Answers Question 1 In my opinion, having a lot of money and property, which can also be refereed as being wealthy, is a very powerful thing and can greatly impact a person’s life and especially their social life. Another thing taken to be the second component of social class is power. When one is amazing and perfect in whatever job they do and hence paid well for it can make one powerful in the society and in companies too. The third component of social class is prestige and being respected all over the world for the achieving good quality in something can also influence and affect the social class of a person. People in the present society majorly focus on what people have and this makes them judge people on the material things they have. According to Marx, I belong to the working social class because I have not accumulated a lot of wealth but depend on my job to provide for my family and get by with life. Question 2 In my opinion, I think that the current shift that exists is the change in global stratification. Individuals in the present time are making it a major issue to point out things that will classify people and regroup them based on different things. An example is stereotyping people based on their races and sex, stratifying people because they have become open on what they want and who they want to become. Many people mainly focus a...