Chapter 9: Social Stratification in the United States
A person's standard of living is evaluated by considering which factor?
Class, employment, and income
Lauren is eager to buy the new designer purse that she recently saw online. She knew every girl in school would covet her bag and would be impressed that she was able to purchase it. Lauren decided to use her credit card to purchase the $5,000 bag. This kind of purchasing is called:
Conspicuous consumption
Luka had finished school and started his career. He felt it was time to get married. His parents chose a bride for him whose parents had the same amount of wealth and belonged to the same class as they did. Luka and his bride will have a(n) ______________________ marriage.
Endogamous
To help develop arguments around social stratification, conflict theorists depend on which scholar's work?
Karl Marx
The idea that the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make, comes from:
Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
The conclusion that most people only socialize with people in their same social class comes from which of the following theories:
Symbolic interactionism
Which of the following seems to be the key (not the rule) to upward social mobility?
How much education you have.
Lily was born to a lower class family in the rural Midwest. After taking a job in the mail room of a large corporate office, Lily is slowly promoted through the ranks and becomes CEO of the company by the age of 50. Compared to her parents, Lily's story demonstrates what type of social stratification?
Intergenerational mobility
Global stratification, as seen today, was mainly caused by this historical event:
The Industrial Revolution
According to sociologists, which statement best differentiates those within the upper class from those in the upper-middle class?
Upper class is often defined as having control over one's life and the lives of people around them, while the upper-middle class is often defined as having control only over one's own life.