SOC 101: L5 Quiz

Factories using child labor

An example of slavery, according to Anti-Slavery International, is:

Deindustrialization

Areas that once had vast economic growth and large amounts of industry, but are now suffering from the effects of outsourcing are going through a period of:

Digital divide

Caleb attended a private high school, which gave each student access to a personal laptop and iPhone. Ted attended a poorly funded public school, which had few computers and outdated technology. When Caleb gets to college, he's more prepared than Ted for coursework which includes computer and online material. This occurrence is an example of:

A meritocracy

Elisa graduated from college with a double major and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. She was then offered a job in New York where she worked 12 hours a day and produced excellent results. Within two years she had over 100 employees working under her. Elisa's hard work was rewarded with a raise and a bonus. This form of promotion is based on the principles of:

Necessary; it challenged people's views.

Functionalist Émile Durkheim believed some deviance within society was:

The decline of the middle class

What is the most significant threat to the relatively high standard of living people are accustomed to in the United States?

Income, Employment, and Class. (All of the Above).

Which factor is considered when evaluating someone's standard of living?

The Industrial Revolution

Which historical event was greatly responsible for global stratification as we see it today?

Lack of education

Which is an effect of absolute poverty that also contributes to its cyclical nature?

Sarah's iPod breaks just as the newest iPod Nano is being introduced.

Which of the following is an example of planned obsolescence?

Once poverty has entered a geographic location, it is very difficult to get rid of.

Which statement would you find in the analysis of poverty by Neckerman and Torche?

More women live in poverty than men.

Which trend has the World Bank seen in its study of poverty in low-income nations?

Karl Marx

Whose work do conflict theorists rely on to help form their arguments surrounding social stratification?

We can be responsible consumers and research products before buying them.

Child labor and sweatshops have existed since the Industrial Revolution and even before that. Many products sold today are created in these sweatshops, even though, living in the 21st century, we like to think we are above such practices. What is one practical way we can try and stop multinational companies from using such labor?

A caste system

Mohit spent his days combing through garbage in Mumbai, India with his brothers and sisters. Sometimes he would find food, or something to sell for money. He never tried to overcome his lower-class status because he had seen his friends try and fail. So, he accepted his fate, and tried to live life as best he could in a closed society. Mohit is an example of someone living under:

symbolic interactionism

The social perspective known as _________________ aligns with relativity of deviance.

A form of constant monitoring in which the observation posts are decentralized and the observed is never communicated with directly

The term panoptic surveillance is defined in the text as:

The spread of technology across borders.

The term technological diffusion is defined as:

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

The two regions with the highest risk of social unrest are:

Harold Garfinkel

Sociologist __________________ coined the term degradation.

symbolic interactionist

Sociologists who believe you help to produce your own orientations to life by joining specific groups aligns with the _______________________sociological perspective.

Most people only socialize with people in their same social class.

Symbolic interactionists have come to the conclusion that:

Émile Durkheim

The early sociologist who argued that deviance might be functional for society was ________.

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

How is global stratification different from social stratification?

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

One main issue in studying global social inequality is: