Exam 7: Stratification, class, and Inequality

Max Weber argued that class divisions can derive from resources such as people's:

An economy based on computer and information technology has had what effect on social stratification in recent years?

What is social mobility,and what is the difference between intergenerational and intragenerational mobility? Do you think you will experience intragenerational mobility in your lifetime? Explain why or why not.

Inequality and the gap between rich and poor have been steadily growing in the United States.The richest 20 percent has __________ of the total income,while the poorest 20 percent has __________ of the total income.

What is the difference between income and wealth? How are income and wealth related? Which is more important in determining one's position in the system of stratification in the United States? Why?

The lower class has a higher percentage of __________ than any other class in the United States.

Eddie is a factory worker who makes about $32,000 a year.Eddie's husband,Dustin,works part-time as a dental assistant and makes about $15,000.Their combined income is just enough to pay their mortgage and make ends meet.Eddie and Dustin are considered:

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

According to Karl Marx,a class is made up of people who have the same relationship to the:

In an industrialized society,which term is most often used to analyze stratification?

A stratification system in which certain people are owned as property is known as:

A farmer with a high school diploma who makes $115,000 a year,lives in a large home,and drives an expensive car is most likely to be in which class category?

The income of most elderly people is dependent on:

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,her life story demonstrates that in a class system,the social position we are born into affects our life chances,but our class position is also:

According to the textbook,Jewish people have been considered a __________ throughout most of European history.

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

In which of the following countries is the poverty rate the highest?

Which country has a caste system based on occupation groupings?

Researchers of social mobility,including Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan in the 1960s and William Sewell and Robert Hauser in the 1980s,have shown that:

According to the textbook,__________ in addition to Social Security ,has/have helped lift many of the elderly out of poverty.