Exam 1: Understanding Social Stratification and Caste Systems in Various Societies

Who defined slave as a man whom law and custom regard as the property of another.

The type of communalism characterized by a high degree of sharing and minimal social inequality.

The system which is synonymous with Feudalism is called.

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.

The system which involves great social inequality and the ownership of some persons by others.

According to _________Kingsley Davis and________ Moore stratification exists in every known human society.

According to Hindu caste system which is the major upper caste.

The kind of stratification system which is more closed.

_______ is called the mobility brought about by changes in the stratification hierarchy for instance as society becomes more technologically advanced.

The system in which an individual is permanently assigned to a status based on his or her parents' status is called.

It is the extreme form of inequality in which some individuals are owned by others as their property.

According to______ a more complex division of labour made the class more heterogeneous.

________ is large set of people regarded by themselves or others as sharing similar status with regard to wealth, power and prestige.

The system in which clergy, nobility and commoners functioned like three political groups.

Who said that in all stratified societies there are two major social groups: a ruling class and a subject class.

_________ is called the movement of a person from one status to another, either between generations or within a person's adult career.

According to Hindu caste system which caste is the lowest in the caste hierarchy.

According to _____the chief criteria of domination of a caste are Economic strength,Political power,Ritual purity and numerical strength.

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.

According to the basis of slavery is always economic because with it emerged a kind of aristocracy which lived upon slave labour.