Exam 2: Culture

The United States is currently experiencing one of the greatest economic challenges it has faced since______________

According to the text, one of the most important characteristics of systems of stratification is their degree of __________.

Occupations such as medical technicians, teachers, and nurses pertain to the ____________ , which makes up an estimated 30 percent of the U.S. population.

Until the 1990s, white South Africans controlled the government, the police, and the military by enforcing_______________ , the term used in South Africa for "the separation of the races."

According to Marx, the capitalist class maintains its position at the top of the class structure by control of the society's _______________, which is composed of the government, schools, churches, and other social institutions.

In the Marxian model of Erik Wright, business owners and craftspeople that may hire a small number of employees but largely do their own work would be considered ______________class.

Erik Wright has written on Marx's view of social stratification. Discuss his criticisms of Marx. List and briefly define/explain his (i.e., Wright's) model of stratification based on the work of Marx.

From the perspective of______________ , social inequality is not only inevitable, but it is also an essential part of any healthy society.

An estimated 30 percent of the U.S. population is ____________ , which includes occupations such as semiskilled machine operators in factories and people in the service sector, such as clerks and salespeople.

Marx believed that the exploitation of workers by the capitalist class would ultimately lead to_______________ , or the struggle between the capitalist and working classes.

Marx used the term_______________ to refer to those who must sell their labor to the owners in order to earn enough money to survive.

Neither the Weberian nor the Marxian model of class in the United States describes the nature and extent of social inequality within the United States.

Which of the following was not one of the primary characteristics of slavery as it was practiced in the United States?

Weber called the class consisting of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled workers the____________ .

In Wright's Marxian model, persons who have substantial control over production and over workers but do not participate in key corporate decisions such as how to invest profit are the .

Whereas Marx defined class in purely economic terms, Max Weber developed a multidimensional approach to social stratification that reflects the interplay among wealth, prestige, and_______________ .

Which of these racial/ethnic groups has the highest rate of poverty?

Social inequality and poverty have both economic and structural sources. According to your text, a great deal of poverty in the United States is due to ______________.

A difference between the caste system in India and the caste system in South Africa is that in India caste was based in part on ________________.

_______________is the value of all of a person's or family's economic assets, including income, personal property, and income-producing property.