Exam 7: Stratification

The U.S.estate tax is sometimes called the ____________ tax.

You are dependent on your professor for your grade.Your professor,in turn,is dependent on you for his or her job.Hegel would call this a(n):

Soros has suggested that repealing the estate tax would result in a shift of the tax burden onto earnings,which would shift it onto people:

Mills believed that centralized power in the hands of a few ____________ democracy.

Which term refers to everything you own minus debts (such as a mortgage on your home and credit card debt)?

The game of Monopoly follows the rules of what standard of equality?

Mobility that is inevitable from changes in the economy is called:

Which American job sector has greatly increased since the oil crisis of 1973?

Hegel argued that notions of inequality are constantly evolving in a larger historical arc and will eventually lead to:

According to the "Relative Social Prestige of Selected U.S.Occupations" table (Table 7.1 in your text),which blue-collar occupation has the highest prestige score?

C.Wright Mills had a negative view of the elite-mass dichotomy.His viewpoint fits into what paradigm?

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

A system in which advancement is based on individual achievement or ability is referred to as:

Hegel felt that the relationship between slave and master was dialectic.This means that:

Compare and contrast Rousseau's perspective of social inequality with that of Malthus,Millar,and Ferguson.

Sociologists have been trying to figure out why Europe (and ultimately the United States)was first to experience the Industrial Revolution.Some feel that it was due to geography.Thinking of the United States (compared to Africa),why would we,not Africa,have become an industrialized nation?

Let's say your grandfather fought in World War II.When he returned from war,what educational level did his potential employer expect from him,and what were his chances for social mobility? Flash forward 60 years and compare this to veterans coming back from Iraq.What are their educational expectations and chances for social mobility?

The rise and fall of an individual (or group)from one social stratum to another is called ____________ social mobility.

Which theorist argues that members of a class are grouped by their value in the commercial marketplace?

C.Wright Mills argues that there are three major institutions in the United States today that have the power to make decisions for the masses.Which one of the following is NOT one of these?