Chapter 9 Section Quiz: Social Stratification in the United States
Conflict theorist view capitalist as those who:
get rich while works stay poor.
Which graphic concept best illustrates the concept of social stratification?
Pyramid.
Which statement represents stratification from the perspective of symbolic interactionism?
After work, Par, a janitor, feels more comfortable eating in a truck stop than a French restaurant.
Which statement illustrates low status consistency?
A college dropout launches an online company that earns millions in its first year.
Structural mobility occurs when:
A large group moves up or down the class ladder due to societal changes.
Which of the following scenarios is an example of intergenerational mobility?
An executive belongs to a different class than her parents.
The behaviors,customs,and norms associated with a class are known as:
Class traits.
Which of these systems allows for the most social mobility?
Class.
Unlike Davis and Moore, Melvin Tumin believed that, because of social stratification, some qualified people were _________ higher-level job positions.
Denied the opportunity to obtain.
When Karl Marx said workers experience alienation, he meant that workers:
Do not feel connected to their work.
Based on meritocracy, a physician's assistant would:
Earn a pay raise for doing excellent work.
Which person best illustrates opportunities for upward social mobility in the United States?
First-generation college student.
In the United States, most people define themselves as:
Middle Class
Occupational prestige means that jobs are:
Not equally valued.
What factor makes caste systems closed?
People cannot change their social standing.
Social stratification is a system that:
Ranks society members into categories.
The basic premise of the Davis-Moore thesis is that the unequal distribution of rewards in social stratification:
Serves a purpose in society.
The GNI PPP figure represents:
The average annual income of a country's citizens .
What factor makes class systems open?
They allow movement between classes.