CH 07 REVIEW QUIZ

(Q010) What is the most significant difference between the working class and the lower class?

Although working-class families often struggle to get by, they tend to have significantly more job and neighborhood stability than those in the lower class.

(Q008) __________ and __________ are categories that contribute to structured inequalities.

Gender; racial identity

(Q014) The feminization of poverty is most acute among families headed by __________ women.

Latina

(Q018) The principal victims of poverty in the United States are

children.

(Q004) Ownership of wealth, occupation, income, and education are the four main bases of which kind of stratification system?

class

(Q011) Many young people complete their education and find it impossible to afford a new home despite having a well-paying job, yet their parents had a very different experience. This is an example of __________ mobility.

downward

(Q013) Most poor people do not receive welfare benefits because they

earn too much to qualify.

Q007) What is one of the strongest predictors of income and wealth in later life?

education

(Q020) Among people who study stratification, one of the two major debates over the declining importance of social class is that

globalization may be hastening the end of caste systems.

(Q001) Caste systems that are in place today may be undergoing a shift to class systems. A possible reason for this is the

growth of industrial production, which requires people to be able to move about freely.

(Q023) The Davis-Moore thesis suggests a person's social position is based solely on his _____.

innate talents and efforts

(Q009) The story of Viviana Marquez presented at the beginning of this chapter is a good example o

intergenerational mobility.

(Q021) Pierre Bourdieu argues that among the factors responsible for social status, the most important is the transmission of cultural capital. What would be considered cultural capital, according to Bourdieu's definition?

language ability

(Q016) One possible outcome of persistent intergenerational downward mobility might be that it could

lead to a culture of poverty in the following generation.

(Q015) One of the reasons that estimates for the poverty rate among those ages sixty-five and older may be low is due to the high cost of

medical care.

(Q012) According to some critics, the government measure of the poverty line is a failure because it

overestimates the amount spent on food and underestimates the cost of housing.

(Q002) A class system is a large group of people who occupy a __________ in the larger society.

similar economic position

Q017) The proliferation of ways in which the Internet has become part of daily life includes the ability to obtain many services online, such as doctor appointments or consultations, taking courses, and even ordering textbooks. In many rural communities, Internet services are nonexistent. This could be interpreted by sociologists as

social exclusion.

(Q024) When sociologists study how race and ethnicity affect income, they are studying the topic of

stratification.

(Q003) Suppose you have decided to spend the summer working as a house painter with two friends. You each handle a different aspect of the business, and you have collectively decided how much to pay each person after material expenses. At the end of the summer, there is money left over. According to a Marxist analysis, the leftover money would be considered

surplus value.

(Q006) One of the primary means of accumulating wealth in America is

the purchase of a home.

(Q022) About 20 percent of Americans have household annual income between $100,000 and $200,000, college and advanced degrees, and tend to be professionals. They are in the _____.

upper middle class

(Q005) Wealth and income are two important ways to evaluate social stratification in the United States. Some argue that it is wealth, and not income, that is the real indicator of social class because

wealth is less susceptible than income to annual fluctuations.

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Q019) The homeless population in America is composed mainly of

young single men of working age.