Exam 8: Social Stratification

The three vice principals at the local high school can often be seen chatting with the students and monitoring the area across the street from the school where the students smoke.Just before the bell rings to signal the end of lunch break,the adults tell the students to leave the area and get back to school,and they all comply.Why do they comply?

The lack of a sufficient number of good jobs is a social psychological explanation of poverty.

According to the textbook,why can the welfare state be compared to Robin Hood?

What do we call the organization of society into a hierarchical structure?

In the textbook,the movie District 9 is used as an example of which of the following real-life systems?

In a survey of 18 nations,which of the following statements did most Canadians polled agree with?

In the United States,how much of the increase in wealth in the 1990s went to the richest 20 percent of the population?

According to Max Weber,parties differ from one another in the prestige or social honour they enjoy and in their style of life.