Exam 10: Class

The common belief is that the poor get a number of handouts for commodities for which other Americans have to work, such as food stamps, Medicaid, housing subsidies, etc.

Non-Hispanic whites constitute the most numerous racial/ethnic group among the poverty population.

According to Robert Reich, global terrorism, not poverty, poses the largest threat to our society as a whole.

Women working full-time earn ________ for each dollar a man earns working full-time.

Having a job where "you take orders" is, according to conflict theorists, basic to membership in the working class.

Identify which of the following is not an aspect of the social stratification system that translates directly and indirectly into different patterns of health for the affluent.

________ refers to change from one position to another of equal or near equal prestige.

Order theorists see social class as based on _______ , whereas conflict theorists see social class as based on _______.

Rural poor, in comparison to the urban poor, have greater access to low-cost housing.

Whites take a majority of the welfare budget and, when you consider Social Security and other benefits, whites receive almost twice as much government assistance per capita than African Americans.

Strong in-group solidarity characterizes the upper-upper class.

Wright's 1982 study found that minorities are the most proletarianized group in the United States.

There is not only a generational but an intergenerational correlation between education and income.

Educational attainment, especially college education, is the least important predictor of success in the United States.

Jenck's study showed that family background is the most important factor in educational attainment, which in turn is very important to later success.

A class, given the diversity within it, is not a/an ________ group.

Of industrialized democracies, the U.S. has more poverty, more severe poverty, and supports the poor the least.

The order perspective identifies the ruling class as a unit of the social class system.

Race and gender combine to increase the probability of poverty.

Equality of opportunity exists because employers cannot discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity of their employees and prospective employees.