Americans engage in greater “ranking consistency” than “cutting consistency” when identifying where people go in the social class structure. What is the difference between the two of them? Use examples in your definition
What will be an ideal response?
1. People perceive a rank order. 2. They agree more about the extremes than about the middle of the prestige range. 3. They agree most about the top of the range and make more distinctions about the top than about the bottom. (Perhaps the top is just more conspicuous.) 4. People lump together into large groups those who are furthest from them. 5. People in the middle or at the bottom are more likely to conceive of class differences in financial terms. 6. Those at the top are more conscious of prestige distinctions based on family history (“old money”) and style of life. 7. Mobility is a source of ambiguity in perception of the prestige order. People find it difficult to “place” mobile individuals. Perception of high rates of mobility leads to the conclusion that class boundaries are amorphous or nonexistent.
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