Exam 7: Stratification

Each society has a type of social stratification.How does the United States ideologically justify its type of stratification system?

The modern capitalist society is an example of which type of society?

Social class is so difficult to precisely define that some sociologists argue it is a useless concept.Why is it so difficult to precisely define social classes? In your answer,compare definitions of poverty (easier to define)with middle class (more difficult to define).

Briefly distinguish between wealth and income.Offer an example of a person who has low income but great wealth.Offer an example of a person who has high income but low wealth.Of these two,which person is better off,and why?

Which of the following is a type of social stratification?

Indira is a corporate CEO.Max is a janitor at a strip mall.New research on inequality trends from 1990 to 2002 suggests that for every dollar someone like Max earns,someone like Indira earns about:

College student Jerry says disease,natural disasters,and even war serve a greater purpose.His friends say his views are offensive,and Jerry replies,"But I'm a Malthusian!" Along with Thomas Malthus,Jerry believes that the benefit of problems that wipe out large number of humans is that:

The typical African American family has about ________ of the net worth of the typical white family.

Under what system is your societal position related to your position in the economic market?

Trade of goods and services across national boundaries,as well as the mobility of businesses and labor through immigration,is called:

Akamai is a paralegal for a law firm in Manhattan.He gets a new job as a paralegal for a law firm in Boston.Sociologists see such a shift as ________mobility.

Consumers and advocates grew concerned about the plight of tomato pickers,an industry marked by exploitation and even slavery.What outcome fits with Hegel's theory?

When sociologists study how race and ethnicity affect income,they are studying the topic of:

A Hegelian perspective shows that the ________ relationship is alive and well today in industries such as tomato picking.

A stratification system with a governing elite-that is,few leaders who broadly hold the power in society-is called a(n)________ system.

C.Wright Mills had a negative view of the elite-mass dichotomy.His view fits with the ________ paradigm.

Which social stratification system was favored in feudal Europe and the American South before the Civil War?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that the source of all social ills was:

Karl Marx and Jean-Jacques Rousseau tended to agree on at least one thing.They both saw the primary source of social ills in society as: