Quiz 5

A  economic hegemony.

B  disenfranchisement.

C  residential racism.

D  redlining.

A  souvenirs

B  tennis shoes

C  cultural capital

D  wealth

A  not very skilled.

B  experiencing structural mobility.

C  part of the simplicity movement.

D  lazy and selfish about helping people in need.

A  wise investing.

B  savvy technological genius.

C  horizontal mobility.

D  structural mobility.

A  education

B  cultural capital

C  ideology

D  social welfare

A  ideology

B  social class

C  the pace of interaction

D  judgment

A  The living room is where the television is usually found.

B  The living room is where the most expensive furniture goes.

C  The living room is where we receive guests.

D  The living room is a part of the house the whole family uses.

A  Pierre Bourdieu

B  Emile Durkheim

C  Karl Marx

D  Max Weber

A  horizontal poverty

B  relative deprivation

C  cultural poverty

D  absolute deprivation

A  They do not feel they have a class status, or they are unaware of it.

B  They are upper class.

C  They are lower class.

D  They are middle class.

A  meritocracy.

B  false consciousness.

C  ideology.

D  hegemony.

A  Asian Americans

B  Hispanics

C  working mothers

D  people who live on the West Coast

A  intragenerational

B  life-cycle

C  intergenerational

D  structural

A  population density and anomie

B  the availability of drugs

C  funding for law enforcement

D  poverty

A  vertical social mobility

B  intergenerational mobility

C  horizontal social mobility

D  structural mobility

A  There was no correlation between class status and educational achievement.

B  Children from working-class families are more likely to attend and graduate from college, as they have better work ethics.

C  Parental income is strongly correlated with academic achievement, especially in low-income families.

D  Class status helped to predict high school grades but had no relationship to later academic success.

A  It is maintained through beliefs that are widely shared in a society.

B  Low-level groups often have basic access to the rewards and privileges of higher-level groups.

C  With each new generation, families’ social positions start anew.

D  All societies stratify according to wealth accumulation.

A  intragenerational mobility

B  immigrant mobility

C  structural mobility

D  intergenerational mobility

A  cultural capital

B  class consciousness

C  the American Dream

D  status inconsistency

A  aware of the law.

B  class conscious.

C  gender biased.

D  a meritocracy.

A  slavery

B  social class

C  gender

D  social caste

A  Moving from welfare to work helped single people much more than it did families or single mothers.

B  Moving from welfare to work increases both the self-esteem of the poor and their incomes.

C  Moving from welfare to work caused many former welfare recipients to plunge into homelessness.

D  Moving from welfare to work did not substantially increase income levels; it simply shifted the poor from welfare to low-paying jobs.

A  She has recently lost most of her resources and is not particularly well off.

B  Her family might not have had much money but did have social connections that helped her with her career.

C  She represents the exception rather than the rule.

D  She was born into a fairly wealthy family.

A  It justifies a welfare system that supports a great number of people who simply do not want to work.

B  It overestimates the number of people who cannot afford basic necessities.

C  It does not take into account regional differences in the cost of living.

D  It is too complicated because it takes into account too many factors, especially the cost of housing in each major metropolitan area.

A  those with just a high school education

B  those with annual household incomes exceeding $75,000

C  Baby Boomers reaching retirement age

D  whites

A  jobs associated with skilled trades like carpentry

B  blue collar work

C  jobs in manufacturing

D  jobs in the service, information, and technology sectors

A  profiling the lower class

B  attacking political protests that are organized by the poor

C  increasing scrutiny of the lower class

D  moving the homeless out of high-profile locations

A  that the American Dream is an ideology

B  that most Americans will inherit their parents’ class status

C  that America is a largely class-free society

D  that poverty is absolute, not relative

A  intergenerational

B  intragenerational

C  a lack of

D  horizontal social

A  residential segregation

B  social mobility

C  political disenfranchisement

D  homelessness