Final Soc and indifference
Women gained the right to vote nationally in the United States in
1920 with the 19th Amendment
Labor organizing lost ground during the
1920s Red Scares
The doctrine of "separate but equal" was struck down in:
1954, Brown vs. Board of Education
The continent with the lowest incomes and highest rates of poverty is
Africa
As the American labor movement grew, many local craft unions joined together to form the
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Two-thirds of the world's poor live in
Asia
Abraham Lincoln supported slavery before he became president.
False
Child labor, controversial in South Asia, was never used in the United States or Japan.
False
College graduates are more likely to be unemployed than job seekers with less than a high school diploma.
False
Despite government programs, poverty rates soared in the 1960s.
False
During the Victorian Period of the 1800s, no one challenged the accepted standard of a women's place in the home with her children.
False
Following the 13th Amendment, the rights and political standing of African Americans in the U.S. South gradually improved through the 1880s and 1890s.
False
For the average worker, their gain in lifetime earnings by having a college degree will not be enough to make up for the cost of tuition.
False
Given its long history of valuing work, the United States welcomed the first labor unions and attempts to organize workers.
False
Human capital theorists argue that what people learn in school has no value in how valuable they are as an employee
False
In the 1850s, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn slavery but argued that nonetheless the rights of African American slaves as U.S. citizens must be respected.
False
Jay MacLeod found that the young people he studied, especially African Americans, did not get ahead because they had low aspirations and did not want to succeed.
False
No Child Left Behind set standards for achievement in broad areas, including social studies, music, and the arts.
False
Once someone gets a job, they rarely remain below or near the poverty level.
False
Organized labor's influence in national elections has continued to grow.
False
Part of President Johnson's Great Society Program was a plan to eliminate welfare programs.
False
Robert Kennedy read Galbraith's The Affluent Society and decided that there was no longer a poverty problem in the United States
False
The Environmental Justice Movement contends that environmental hazards are one of the few things that affect rich and poor equally.
False
The Great Depression of the 1930s meant the end of most U.S. labor unions.
False
The U.S. social structure is such an open system that studies have found that few sons continue in the social class of their fathers.
False
The most segregated city in the United States is Mobile, Alabama.
False
The numbers of African Americans and Hispanics who graduate from college have not increased since the 1970s
False
Unlike central cities, suburbs, even older ones, typically have little poverty.
False
When Jonathan Kozol returned to public schools in the 1990s, he found that most of the inequalities he had struggled against in the 1960s were gone
False
White families are now more at risk of being in poverty than Black or Latino families.
False
The great mulatto abolitionist and antislavery lecturer who became a friend and confidante of Lincoln and an advocate of an integrated America was
Frederick Douglass
Child labor, once a major issue in the United States and Japan, is now a center of controversy in
India and Pakistan
The post-Civil War advancement of African Americans was soon reversed by
Jim Crow laws
The most segregated metropolitan area in the United States is greater metropolitan
Milwaukee
Union leaders supported Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns but opposed his stance on
NAFTA and free trade
The highest poverty rates in the U.S. are experienced by
Native Americans
The first nation to give women the right to vote in national elections was
New Zealand
Martin Luther King Jr.'s last great initiative before his assassination was the
Poor People's Movement
Gandhi's ideas on nonviolent social action inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and the original
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was replaced in 1996 by a new program called
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
A major concern for the Affordable Care Act was the large numbers of Americans who had no health insurance.
True
Christopher Jencks found that a key factor in getting ahead was good luck
True
In its decision in the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that separate is inherently unequal."
True
In the 1990s and following, consumer activism began to target overseas sweatshops.
True
In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton signed into law a sweeping welfare reform act.
True
Large cities often have income gaps between the top and bottom quintiles that are greater than the national average.
True
No Child Left Behind set funding rewards for schools that had higher percentages of students passing standardized tests
True
One of the creations of the Roosevelt New Deal of the 1930s was Social Security.
True
Poverty in South Dakota is most prevalent on Native American reservations.
True
President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty.
True
Richard Florida believes that "brain gain" cities thrive by attracting young and diverse creative workers.
True
Rust Belt cities are those who have experienced a loss of heavy industry.
True
Since the 1990s, large numbers of people who had received welfare assistance such as AFDC have moved into the workforce.
True
Sinclair's The Jungle and Norris's The Octopus exposed dangerous working conditions in meat packing and railroad building.
True
Sociologists refer to people coming together in organized and spontaneous demonstrations as "collective action."
True
The "Black Belt" refers to a region with many rural African Americans
True
The poorest counties in the United States are in Texas, Mississippi, and South Dakota
True
The world's poorest people are rural.
True
U.S. women did not gain the right to vote nationally until 1920
True
Women are more likely to graduate from college with a 4-year degree than are men.
True
A key element in homelessness since the 1970s has been
a growing lack of affordable housing
Compared to Europe and Canada, the United States has
a less unionized workforce
To cope with deindustrialization, cities such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland sought to
attract new hotels and retailers along with civic attractions
The poor in the United States are increasingly likely to be:
children
Student-led campus boycotts across the United States in 1999 and 2000 targeted
clothing and shoe manufacturers
Since the 1970s, the real dollar value of the minimum wage has
declined
David Ellwood and others have argued that working poor families should be supported by universal health care and expanded
earned income tax credits
In Blau and Duncan's path diagram, Father's education has a direct effect on father's occupation and on son's
education
In Featherman and Hauser's occupational tables, which category of sons is mostly likely to have had fathers in the same category?
farm
Concern over the quality of education in public schools makes Kozol
fearful of school choice proposals
Lyndon Johnson responded to disturbing studies of poverty, such as Michael Harrington's The Other America, with a call
for a war on poverty
Over the last several decades, the value of a college education has been
growing relative to workers with no college
Women are most disadvantaged compared to men in
income returns on years of education
Those who propose charter schools and greater privatization of schools contend a major problem with public schools is
inefficient layers of bureaucracy
Wilson contends American cities have moved from
institutional to jobless ghettos
Betty Friedan argued that the "feminine mystique" of the 1950s was
intentionally undermining decades of social change
One reason that the governments of many poor countries do not spend more on health and education is that they spend 5 to 15% of their GNP on
interest on debt
The problems of the American inner city ghetto are many, but Wilson believes that at the root cause of many of them is
joblessness
Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Rodham Clinton both advanced ideas associated with
liberal reform feminism
In Ain't No Makin' It, MacLeod contends that the low aspirations of the Hallway Hangers are due to
limited opportunity and class-based barriers
According to Kozol, one of the basic problems with school funding is that it is based on
local property taxes
In Featherman and Hauser's 1962 occupational tables, the sons of upper-white-collar African American fathers were most likely to have jobs that were
lower manual
Christopher Jencks claimed that his research showed that income differences between individuals were considerably influenced by
luck
"Brain gain" cities that attracted highly educated people often are the sites of
major universities and government offices
In "comeback cities" such as Cleveland and Detroit, overall employment has increased at the same time there has been a marked decrease in
manufacturing employment
Poverty is becoming much more common in
older, inner-ring suburbs
The greatest disparity between men and women occurs in:
personal earnings
Those that live near toxic waste and unsafe environments are often
poor and nonwhite
Immigration mobility occurs when
poor immigrants take over the bottom rungs of the occupational ladder
As part of the New Deal programs, the Roosevelt administration initiated
public work projects such as the WPA and CCC
The 1946 Taft-Hartley Act sought to
reduce union power and make union leaders liable for damages
The counties in the United States with the highest poverty rates are home to
rural white, Native, Hispanic, and African Americans
The Black Belt in the United States is home to
rural, poor, Southern African Americans
According to Stephanie Coontz, the Victorian homemaker with a large home was assisted to a large extent, directly or indirectly, in her tasks by:
servants, laborers, and possibly slaves
Compared to other nations, the United States
spends the most on healthcare
One common strategy to increase employment and community income in depressed areas, seen recently in Flint, Cleveland, Detroit, and Gary, is to build
stadiums, casinos and recreational attractions
The No Child Left Behind Act has been criticized for its emphasis on
standardized testing without standardized funding
The growth of white collar jobs in the U.S. following World War II allowed for considerable:
structural mobility
The group most disadvantaged in completing college are
students from low-income backgrounds
Poverty in the U.S. decreased the most dramatically during
the 1960s
The region of the country that has been consistently losing population over the last several decades, due partly to a changing agricultural economy, is
the Great Plains
When heavy industry left, Midwest and Northeast cities experienced
the Rust Belt phenomenon
The women's suffrage movement began with:
the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
The highest child poverty rates in the advanced industrial world, after all government help has been received, are in
the United States
The year 1848 saw major statements issued that energized
the labor, women's, and abolitionist movements
European welfare states believe that
the national government is responsible for the welfare of all its citizens
Human capital theory suggests that highly educated people earn more than others because
they are more productive
According to Blau and Duncan's path diagram, the biggest effect on son's occupation in 1962 came from:
unknown factors
A recent study found that half of all Americans had at one time
used food stamps
A major component of the 1996 Welfare Reform act was to encourage
welfare-to-work rules
An important recent shift in the homeless population is that more of the homeless are now
women with children
Most of the workers killed in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, like many turn-of-the-century textile workers were
young women
