Exam 7: Stratification, Class, and Inequality

Today, the gap between rich and poor in the United States is the largest it has been since:

Working-class children are most likely to do which of the following after graduating from high school?

Although official estimates show that relatively few elderly people live in poverty, these statistics may be misleading because:

In one to two sentences, explain how the official definition of poverty is calculated. Based on what you read in the text, how do sociologists distinguish some of the problems with this way of calculating poverty today?

Dr. Ramirez is a sociology professor, and while he makes much less money than doctors and lawyers, he is viewed as having relatively high prestige because of:

Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty and raised by a single mother, yet today she is one of the richest women in America. According to the textbook, the social position we are born into affects our life chances, but our class position is also:

Caste systems like the one in India require that individuals marry within their social group. This is referred to as:

The money a person gets from a wage, salary, or investments is ________; the assets an individual owns are ________.

According to the textbook, what has been the relationship between higher education and social stratification in recent years?

When a person moves from one position in a class structure to a nearly identical position, the person is said to experience:

Intergenerational mobility is best described as when:

In three to four sentences, consider why sociologists say we are seeing the feminization of poverty?

According to the textbook, one conclusion we can draw about the upper class in the United States is that:

Which of the following is an example of downward mobility?

Which of the following is an example of social mobility?

When a person does not have adequate resources to maintain his or her health, such as enough food to eat, the person is said to be in:

When sociologists examine how far an individual moves up or down the socioeconomic scale in his or her lifetime, they are studying:

Workers picking strawberries can pick 100 baskets an hour, but the value of 20 baskets is all it costs the employer to pay them their hourly wages. According to Karl Marx, the income the employer collects from the extra baskets is:

Do you think you will experience intragenerational mobility in your lifetime? In two to four sentences, consider why or why not. Be sure to mention at least one sociological explanation of mobility in your answer.

Riley Vidal is a seventy-five-year-old who lives in a nursing home. Like many elderly people in the United States, Vidal likely relies on ________ for his income.