Exam_2_Flashcards_Module_5

Women's employment outside the agricultural sector remains under 20 percent in: - Southern America - Australia - Northern Asia - Northern Africa

Northern Africa

Which trend has the World Bank seen in its study of poverty in low-income nations? - Equal numbers of men and women live in poverty. - More men live in poverty than women. - More women live in poverty than men. - Children can avoid living in poverty if they live with their fathers.

More women live in poverty than men.

Symbolic interactionists have come to the conclusion that: - Most people do not care about social rank & standing - Only lower class people drink beer - Most people only socialize with people in their same social class - Only upper class people can enjoy a good game of polo

Most people only socialize with people in their same social class

Which continent has the greatest number of impoverished nations in the world? - Asia - South America -North America - Africa

Africa

Which factor is considered when evaluating someone's standard of living? - All of these - Employment - Income - Class

All of these

Which continent has the largest number of people living in poverty in the world? - North America - Africa - Asia - South America

Asia

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created by: - Asian & American countries - Middle-income countries - Core nation countries - Third world countries

Core nation countries

Immanuel Wallerstein's classification of nations uses which set of terms? - Core nation, peripheral nation, semi-peripheral nation - First world, second world, third world - Super powers, allies of super powers, enemies of super powers - Primary nation, secondary nation tertiary nation

Core nation, peripheral nation, semi-peripheral nation

An example of slavery, according to Anti-Slavery International is: - Children playing with friends - Children attending school - Factories employing adults at salary level - Factories using child labor

Factories using child labor

How is global stratification different from social stratification? - Global stratification only examines environmental inequalities among nations while social stratification examines inequalities among people. - Global stratification can only measure the inequalities among purely democratic states, while social stratification can be expanded to apply to people in any country in the world. - Global stratification examines a myriad of different types of prejudice and inequality, while social stratification covers the social class and standing of individuals. - Countries cannot move up and down the global stratification ladder, unlike people who can use social mobility to climb or fall down the social stratification ladder

Global stratification examines a myriad of different types of prejudice and inequality, while social stratification covers the social class and standing of individuals.

Whose work do conflict theorists rely on to help form their arguments surrounding social stratification? - Auguste Comte - Émile Durkheim - René Decartes - Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Which number does the World Bank use to determine the status and classification of each nation? - Gross National Income per Capita - Gross Domestic Product - Purchasing Power Parity - Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development data

Gross National Income per Capita

What seems to be the key (although not the rule) to upward social mobility? - How well off your parents are - How much education you have - How many jobs you work -How much you spend on your personal appearance

How much education you have

Which is an affect of absolute poverty that also contributes to its cyclical nature? - Lack of education - Massive credit card debt - Excellent healthcare - Home foreclosure

Lack of education

Which social class is quickly disappearing from modern economies? - Upper Class - The amount of people in each class has been about the same for the past 10 years - Lower Class - Middle Class

Middle Class

One main issue in studying global social inequality is: - The presence of tourism can make a country look richer than it really is - Most people live beyond their means which gives a false sense of wealth to a society - Most countries keep their economic situations secret - Social inequality is relative and therefore, difficult to compare across cultures

Social inequality is relative and therefore, difficult to compare across cultures

The two regions with the highest risk of social unrest are: - Europe & Africa - Latin America & Asia - Sub-Saharan Africa & the Middle East-North Africa region - South America & North America

Sub-Saharan Africa & the Middle East-North Africa region

The Davis-Moore Thesis states: - That people constantly move up and down the social ladders, & this creates an unstable economy which will eventually collapse on itself. - That economic hardship & skyrocketing inflation is the cause for all social stratification in the United States - That the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make - That Karl Marx was correct & that stratification can only be solved by converting to a socialist gov't

That the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make

What is the most significant threat to the relatively high standard of living people are accustomed to in the United States? - The feminization of poverty - The decline of the middle class - The stagnation of wages for workers - The growth of the upper class

The decline of the middle class

A person's position in a country's social stratification is determined by: - Prestige, family, legal records, occupation & favorite food - Clothes, accessories, hobbies, shoes, & number of credit cards - Wealth, power, income, race, education - GNI PPP, GDP, GNI, the PRB, & the standards of living

Wealth, power, income, race, education