Exam 7: Stratification, class, and Inequality

At the beginning of her sophomore year of high school,Janis's family cannot afford to buy her new clothes and shoes or enough supplies for school.Janis feels poor compared to her classmates who can afford these things.Janis is experiencing:

According to Pierre Bourdieu,working-class parents are just as interested in their children's education as middle- and upper-class parents,but they lack the __________ to help their children experience social mobility.

Which of the following theorists would be most likely to argue that a medical doctor achieved the position solely based on his or her own talent and efforts?

The super-rich in the United States were able to accumulate vast amounts of wealth partly because globalization enabled them to:

According to the textbook,what is the main reason that slavery does not exist in most societies around the world today?

In 2012,which group had the lowest percentage for achievement of a high school diploma,at 62 percent?

Income inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s as the income of the richest 20 percent saw its incomes rise __________,while the poorest 20 percent saw its incomes rise by __________.

According to the textbook,the upper class in the United States:

According to Karl Marx,because workers produce more than is actually needed to pay them,the relationship between workers and capitalists in an industrial society is:

Sociologists study ________ when they are looking at the structured inequalities in a society.

According to the textbook,what factor accounts for racial disparities in wealth and income?

Explain how the official definition of poverty is calculated.According to critics,what are some of the problems with this way of calculating poverty today? What factors do you believe should be considered in the calculation of poverty and why?

Although official estimates show that relatively few elderly people live in poverty,these statistics may be misleading because:

Today people are taken against their will and forced to work as bricklayers in Pakistan or sex workers in Thailand.According to the textbook,these examples are best described as:

People in blue-collar occupations,such as plumbers and hotel workers,make up the:

According to the sociologist Charles Murray,there are groups among the poor who do not enter the labor market and rely on government interventions,which undermines self-help and personal ambition.He says that these poor are part of:

When a person moves from one position in a class structure to a nearly identical position,the person is said to experience:

Those who believe that poverty results from structural factors beyond the control of individuals would see which of the following as a source of poverty?

Why do sociologists say we are seeing the feminization of poverty? Which social groups are most likely to be represented among poor women? How has this affected the number and percentage of children living in poverty in the United States?

__________ argued that social stratification is functional and ensures that the most talented people fill the roles they are best suited for by rewarding them accordingly.