Exam 7: Stratification

What is the difference between core societies and peripheral societies within world-systems theory?

Which of the following is an example of upward social mobility?

What is meant by the concept of "culture of poverty"?

Inequality becomes stratification when it is institutionalized and:

Which of the following is NOT included as a factor necessarily related to development?

In the last 90 years,the proportion of positions at the top of the U.S.occupational structure has:

The belief that anyone who works hard will get ahead is stronger in the U.S.than in most comparable Western nations.Social mobility in the U.S.is _________ in most comparable Western nations.

The American Dream is an ideology that justifies inequality by saying that:

According to a 2010 survey,most Americans consider themselves to be either __________ or __________ class.

Discuss how water both reflects and reinforces inequality within and between the least- and most-developed societies.

World-systems theory argues that the world economic system is dominated by:

Modern conflict theory examines:

What is the American Dream? How is it related to social inequality?

What role do transnational corporations and nation-states play in global inequality?

In a class system,the allocation of statuses and resources in each new generation depends on:

According to the definition in the text,which of these would be an example of stratification?

Sociologists find that the best explanation for persistent poverty is the different value system and lack of motivation among the poor.

The U.S.has far more income inequality than most other industrialized nations.

The best predictor of your eventual social class is your:

What did Marx call the class must sell its labor to those who own the means of production?