Exam 2: Culture

Marx used the term_______________ for those who own the means of production-the land and capital necessary for factories and mines.

In Wright's Marxian model of social classes, the capitalist class is made up strictly of families with large amounts of inherited wealth.

The upper-middle class is comprised of highly educated professionals, such as physicians, attorneys, stockbrokers, and corporate managers, which make up about____________ of the population.

Since the late 1980s, the wealth gap between African Americans and whites has closed significantly.

In addition to unemployment, structural problems contribute to______________ , where people work at jobs that do not pay a living wage and lack security.

For many of the working poor, medical insurance is out of the question. In 2014, approximately ______________of U.S. households with income less than $25,000 were without health insurance coverage.

Compare the functionalist and conflict theory perspectives on education in relation to inequality in the United States.

Which of the following statements about the class system is incorrect?

Why has Karl Marx's prediction of a workers' revolution failed to occur?

The sociological term for the movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another is __________.

Describe Erik Wright's model of the U.S. class structure based on the theory of Marx.

Workers have not overthrown capitalism as Marx predicted because_______________ .

______________is the most likely to have life-threatening consequences, such as when a homeless person freezes to death on a park bench.

Describe and compare the three types of systems of stratification.

______________theorists stress that schools are agencies for perpetuating social inequality because parents with limited income are not able to provide the same educational opportunities for their children as are families with greater financial resources.

Women's lower socioeconomic status is the primary explanation for poverty in the United States today.

_______________is an extreme form of stratification in which some people are owned by others. It is a closed system in which people are treated as property and have little or no control over their lives.

In the United States, wealth is more unevenly distributed than income.

Anything valued in a society, such as money, property, and education, is called ________________.

Meredith studies how waiters are treated by diners at a country club in order to learn about the daily structure of inequality and how these patterns are enacted and replicated. Meredith is a ______________.